Young Women Transform Prize:
USAID is committed to empowering young women and unlocking their potential to transform their communities and the world. Through the Young Women Transform Prize, USAID will support youth in developing countries to develop their own solutions to advance the economic empowerment of young women in their communities.
Prizes of $15,000 to $35,000 will be awarded to grassroots youth-led or youth-serving organizations in low- or middle-income countries to address long-standing barriers to young women’s employment. Two types of prizes will be awarded:
Creation Prizes of up to $35,000 each: to support the development and implementation of activities with the potential to broaden young women’s access to, and choice over, employment and economic security, with a focus on collecting and disseminating learning; and
Recognition Prizes of $15,000 each: to recognize innovative strategies that have improved young women’s economic opportunities, and collect and share learning from that innovation. Deadline April 30th. http://www.youthpower.org/2018-prize
Women Connect:
The WomenConnect Challenge is a global call for solutions to improve women’s participation in everyday life by meaningfully changing the ways women and girls access and use technology. We are looking to identify and accelerate comprehensive solutions that empower women and girls to access and use digital technology to drive positive health, education, and livelihoods outcomes for themselves and their families. Deadline April 30th. https://www.usaid.gov/wcc
Innovative Solutions to Health Barriers For Adolescents Challenge:
Investing in adolescents results in stronger, more resilient communities and is critical to achieving positive demographic, economic and health outcomes around the globe. However, young people often face barriers in accessing accurate, reliable health information. To address these challenges, USAID seeks unique solutions to provide health information and support for healthy behaviors in a way that is accessible to adolescents. This includes youth-led solutions to health issues. The Agency is particularly interested in solutions that directly reach adolescents in multiple country settings and/or adolescents’ support networks (such as families and communities) as appropriate. Deadline April 13th. http://www.youthpower.org/events/usaid-seeks-innovative-solutions-address-critical-health-barriers-adolescents
Humanitarian Grand Challenge:
Led by USAID and DFID, and implemented through Grand Challenges Canada, “Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge” calls on innovators around the world to submit ideas to save and improve the lives of the most-vulnerable and hardest-to-reach people affected by humanitarian crises caused by conflict. The partners will invest a combined $15 million over the next five years to support innovations that enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of humanitarian assistance. The initial call for innovation seeks solutions that engage the private sector to provide, supply, or locally generate safe drinking water and sanitation, energy, life-saving information, or health supplies and services to help meet the needs of conflict-affected people.The Humanitarian Grand Challenge enables governments and the private sector to work together alongside affected communities to address the unprecedented magnitude of suffering around the world. Through this Grand Challenge, we seek to respond more nimbly to complex emergencies, and empower vulnerable communities to take the steps needed to create better lives for themselves.For more information on Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge, and to apply, visit humanitariangrandchallenge.org Deadline April 9th