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
Funding Information
Successful innovators will be awarded a grant of US$6,000.00 for experimentation of their ideas.
Eligibility Criteria
- The call for innovations is targeted at all Lesotho residents.
- Location: interested innovators may be from any of the 10 districts of Lesotho.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=90398