A great idea, tool, or solution to advance developing countries in their journey to self-reliance can come from anywhere and anyone.
Prizes, challenges, and hackathons use open competition to incentivize entrepreneurs, start-ups, academics, civil society, and other passionate problem solvers like you to address a well-defined problem, to inspire something different, and to encourage you to scale it up in the system.
Open Prizes and Competitions
BetterTogether / JuntosEsMejor Challenge
The U.S. Agency for International Development and the Inter-American Development Bank are partnering for the BetterTogether / JuntosEsMejor Challenge, a global initiative to crowdsource, fund, and scale innovative solutions from Venezuelans, wherever they are, and innovators worldwide to support Venezuelans and host communities affected by the migration.
Entry Deadline: September 30, 2020
RISE Challenge
USAID has reopened the RISE Challenge in order to identify and fund the innovative application of promising or proven interventions that prevent and respond to gender-based violence across programs that address the access, use, control, and management of natural resource.
Entry Deadline: August 5, 2020
Closed Prizes and Competitions
Household Solar Workforce Development
The Household Solar Workforce Development Challenge will award up to $350,000 in grant funding to support scalable, innovative, third-party training solutions to the off-grid solar home system sector's workforce needs in sub-Saharan Africa. USAID, as part of its commitment to the Scaling Off-Grid Energy (SOGE) Grand Challenge for Development, is supporting the Challenge run by the ResilientAfrica Network (RAN).
Closed on: December 15, 2019
Inclusive Health Access Prize
USAID is offering $150,000 in prizes to private organizations with a track record of affordably, accountably, and reliably expanding health care access to the poor and most vulnerable through public-private integration, while also demonstrating a vision for expanding this approach to new geographies.
Closed on: June 28, 2019
WE4F Asia EDGE Prize
The Water and Energy for Food (WE4F) Asia Enhancing Development and Growth through Energy (EDGE) Ag-Energy Prize seeks business owners and entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia with game-changing innovations operating at the nexus of renewable energy, and agriculture. The prize competition will spur, recognize, and reward outstanding enterprises from both youth innovators and mid-stage businesses in the Southeast Asian footprint.
Closed on: January 29, 2020
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