Healthcare alone is not enough for good health.

A person’s lifestyle contributes 6 times more to good health than healthcare itself.

We invite social and health-minded innovators to submit their Grant proposal on mobilising communities to adopt healthier living. Successful applicants can receive grant funding of up to 75% of project costs, capped at $150,000 per year over 2 years.

Eligibility Criteria

Community organisations (eg. Social enterprises, Non-Profit Organisations) and organisations with prior experience conducting community-based initiatives

  • The organisation must be an entity registered with the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) or the Registry of Societies
  • Interested in creating a health-related movement in the Western Region of Singapore and other sites
  • Good track record of serving the community
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In Singapore, lifestyle-related chronic illnesses such as diabetes, obesity and hypertension continue to be on the rise – despite continued efforts to make quality healthcare more accessible and affordable.

In addition, the increasing stressors of navigating work, family and life have also taken a toll of Singaporeans’ mental health and well-being.

Studies* show that 60% of a person’s health is impacted by social and behavioural factors that influence overall mental well-being, compared to healthcare which factors in at only 10%.

Diabetes, hypertension and obesity are preventable and avoidable chronic conditions. Genetic predisposition weighs in at 30%.

*Determinants of Health and their Contribution to Premature Deaths: Schroeder’s 40/30/20/10 “rule-of-thumb”: (NEJM, 2007)

CHALLENGE
STATEMENT

To co-create sustainable, community-owned solutions that drive new approaches to health, and help citizens adopt habits and behaviours that prioritise health and wellness.

KEY INSIGHTS

Singaporeans are expected to live longer but spend more time battling chronic conditions like obesity, diabetes and hypertension which are preventable.

A 2021 survey* revealed that In 2020, 23.6% of Singaporeans had insufficient physical activity. Additionally, more than 50% of respondents led more sedentary lifestyles, despite recognising the importance of living a healthier lifestyle.

*Well-Series: Singapore. (2021). Retrieved 14 February 2022, from  https://www.wundermanthompson.com/insight/well-series

What is a marker of good health?

Good health goes beyond the physical. Good mental health helps to support good physical health, and the converse is true – poor mental health can lead to poor physical health and well-being.

Average Life Expectancy is a traditional measure to benchmark a population’s health, which Singapore ranked number 1 in the world for men and women in 2019. How do we maximise our ‘good’ years, which is 60% within our control?

ABOUT THE FUND

What is the
Movements For
Health Fund?


The Movements For Health (M4H) Fund aims to help social enterprises and non-profit organisations initiate social movements that will encourage communities to adopt and sustain healthier lifestyles to improve their health outcomes.

The project proposed must influence health behaviours by addressing environmental and/or social factors. The project should focus on primary prevention, which includes preventive measures that come before the onset of illness or injury.

To ensure sustainability of M4H projects, grantee partners will receive support through programme training, coaching and development in aspects such as narrative design, innovation, financial sustainability in building their organisation’s capacity, and exposure opportunities to develop partnerships with community funders.

Funded by MOHT, all grantee partners will undergo health literacy training, to equip them with the baseline knowledge and skills to translate learnings on health into their movement project that will shape participants’ motivation, behaviors and habits, e.g. healthier choices and exercise to prevent diabetes.

Selected grantee partners will undergo an evaluation study during the course of their project’s movement ideas. This evaluation study is part of MOHT’s efforts to assess the effectiveness and impact of movement ideas, with a set of indicators measuring awareness of the Movement and adoption of healthier lifestyle behaviours.

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MOHT is a change agent-partner that facilitates and accelerates healthcare transformation. With MOH and partners, MOHT jointly designs and implements system-level solutions that better empower people to keep healthy and manage their chronic disease, and to develop a new health ecosystem that is well integrated, data-driven, and delivers value-based outcomes.

Grant Panel

Our distinguished grant committee will oversee the grant approval process:

Dr Tan Weng Mooi (Chair person)

Director and Co-Head (Integrated Health Promotion)

MOH Office for Healthcare Transformation (MOHT)

Martin Tan

CEO, The Majurity Trust

Dr Rayner Tan Kay Jin

Visiting Research Fellow

Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore (NUS) Infections Diseases Research and Training Office at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) in Singapore

Application process

We invite social and health-minded innovators to submit their Grant proposal. Successful applicants can receive grant funding of up to 75% of project costs, capped at $150,000 per year over 2 years.
Our team will follow up with you to determine your organisation’s eligibility for the Movements For Health Fund.

Invited applicants are required to submit the Movements For Health Application Form detailing the project objectives, milestones and the projected expenditure.

Our team will contact you with further clarifications to your application where required.
The grant panel, made up of representatives from the MOH Office for Healthcare Transformation (MOHT), TMT, and experts in the field will evaluate the proposals, taking into consideration the alignment to the fund’s objectives, team track record, and the project implementation feasibility.
Successful applicants will receive up to 75% of the project cost, capped at $150,000 per year over 2 years.
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Grantee Partners

Frequently Asked Questions

Submit a grant enquiry above. 

Applications open from June to July. Assessments will be conducted from July to August, and successful applicants will receive their 1st tranche of funding from October.

Individuals and ground-up groups can partner with an organisation on a movement idea / proposal. Similarly, organisations can partner up to form a movement.

A grant panel has been set up to assess applications and select organisations based on the strengths of the applicant’s leadership team, quality of the Movement idea and the organisation’s growth potential.

The grant can be used for project related costs such as start-up, operating costs, including manpower and purchase of assets. Post-approval, funds should only be used for the approved use stated in the proposal.

Successful applicants can receive grant funding of up to 75% of project costs, capped at $150,000 per year over 2 years.

Applicants will be informed of the outcome within 2 months from the end of the grant call.

All grantee partners have to undergo training for skills and competency in the areas of basic health (i.e: health literacy and translation of health knowledge to activities/application) and social movements (narrative strategy, intervention and culture change, etc), which is funded by MOHT.

TMT is the fund administrator for the Movements For Health Fund, to set up and manage the grant call and grant disbursement process.