Deadline: 23-Jun-2024
Entries are now open for the D-Prize Challenge that supports organizations in any low-or-middle income country where extreme poverty still exists.
D-Prize believe the world needs more social impact organizations, and they seed for-profit ventures, NGOs, and charities.
D-Prize Challenges
- Health
- Self-Injectable Contraceptive Challenge:
- Can you distribute a self-injectable contraceptive, Sayana® Press, to underserved women through a private health network?
- Oxygen Challenge:
- Can you develop a team of technicians to service and repair existing oxygen concentrators to improve access to medical oxygen?
- Patient Identification Challenge:
- Can you develop a way to identify patients needing treatment for either obstetric fistula, cervical cancer, club foot, or cataracts, then connect them with existing treatment services in your area?
- Maternal Health Challenge:
- Can you train birth attendants to administer misoprostol to prevent maternal deaths from postpartum hemorrhaging?
- Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Challenge:
- Can you identify candidates for Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) and connect those that opt in to existing health facilities to reduce the risk of HIV acquisition?
- Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Challenge:
- Can you counsel and motivate HIV-positive pregnant women to adhere to their ART regimen, and thus prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission?
- Child Immunization Challenge:
- Can you direct caregivers to bring their infants to health facilities for routine immunizations that would otherwise not occur?
- Sugar Daddy Awareness Challenge:
- Can you teach “sugar daddy awareness” to 8th grade classes to reduce unwanted teen pregnancies and HIV infections?
- Self-Injectable Contraceptive Challenge:
- Water
- Clean Access to Water Challenge
- Can you sell ceramic water filters to people in areas without access to clean water?
- Clean Access to Water Challenge
- Agriculture
- Quality Inputs Challenge:
- Can you provide smallholder farmers high-quality inputs and training proven to increase their harvests?
- Post-Harvest Support Challenge:
- Can you provide smallholder farmers post-harvest loans and storage technology proven to increase their incomes?
- Propose Your Own Agriculture Challenge:
- D-Prize is specifically interested in distributing proven agriculture interventions to smallholder farmers. If you know of a highly-effective intervention that is backed by credible evidence, they want to hear what it is and see your plan to increase its distribution.
- Propose Your Own Livestock Challenge:
- D-Prize is interested in distributing proven livestock interventions to smallholder farmers. If you know of a highly-effective intervention backed by credible evidence, they want to hear what it is and see your plan to increase its distribution.
- Quality Inputs Challenge:
- Livelihoods
- Poverty Graduation Challenge:
- Can you provide business coaching, capital, and social support to lift people out of ultra poverty?
- Propose Your Own Financial Inclusion Challenge:
- D-Prize is specifically interested in distributing proven financial inclusion interventions to those in need. If you know of a highly-effective intervention backed by credible evidence, they want to hear what it is and see your plan to increase its distribution.
- Poverty Graduation Challenge:
- Energy
- Solar Lamp Challenge:
- Can you sell pico solar lamps to rural or slum-dwelling households without regular access to electricity?
- Solar Lamp Challenge:
- Public Services
- Government Transparency Challenge:
- Can you monitor and report data to reduce corruption and improve public service?
- Road Safety Challenge:
- Can you reduce road fatalities by mobilizing the public with a proven public transportation safety campaign?
- Government Transparency Challenge:
- Education
- Teaching at the right level challenge:
- In many resource-limited countries, over 50% of Grade 2 students are unable to read a single word of a short text or perform two-digit subtraction. Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) is an education program that tailors instruction to the learning level of the child, rather than their age. The result is that basic literacy and numeracy are achieved by students before they finish primary school. Can you implement an effective TaRL program to teach students in a resource-limited classroom?
- Teaching at the right level challenge:
- Custom
- Propose Your Own Challenge:
- D-Prize is specifically interested in distributing proven poverty interventions to those in need. If you know of a highly-effective intervention that is backed by credible evidence, they want to hear what it is and see your plan to increase its distribution.
- Propose Your Own Challenge:
Funding Information
- All winners will be awarded up to $20,000. The award is offered in the form of a convertible grant.
Eligibility Criteria
- D-Prize challenges are open to anyone or any team. The sole restriction is that individuals and their immediate family on the judging panel may not participate as a contestants.
- D-Prize is also open to any business model (for-profit, non-profit, and everything in between).
- You are not competing against other applicants. They typically fund at least 15 proposals per competition, regardless of which challenge track was selected.
For more information, visit D-Prize.