Ideathon Marathon Challenge on Climate Change, Energy and Environment (Lesotho)

Deadline: 6-May-22

Are You An Innovator Based In Lesotho? Do You See Yourself As A Game Changer In The 21st Century? If yes, UNDP Is looking for you!

UNDP through the Lesotho Accelerator Lab will host a climathon aimed at soliciting solutions the country can use to combat the challenge it is facing in climate change, environment, and energy. Climathon is a basic hackathon on action against environment and climate challenges.

This is a global concept originally developed by Climate-KIC with the objective of translating climate action solutions into tangible projects, supporting climate positive businesses, start-ups and addressing local policy changes and human behaviour. The climathon aims to challenge their collective thinking on environmental issues facing Lesotho, while fostering new and emerging innovations that have been developed to solve climate change and environmental challenges faced by communities.

Call for Innovations

As part of the commemoration of the Innovation and Creativity Day (21 April), the lab is soliciting innovative solutions from interested local changemakers and entrepreneurs/innovators. These innovations must be consistent and in acceleration to achieve requirements of NSDP II and SDGs. Innovative solutions (Digital and Non-Digital) that are not exclusive to the following areas:

Establishment/strengthening of farmer networking information sharing platforms
Branding and tracking solutions for product packaging, look and traceability
Improvement of access to finance and appropriate technologies for smallholder farmers
Food production, processing, and conservation technologies and access to markets
Green energy supply, consumption and demand
Land, Water sources and ecosystem protection
Climate change resilience
Digital technologies on farm management and natural resources management