Deadline: 15-Aug-22
The Reckitt is seeking Applications for Fight for Access Accelerator Programme that catalyse innovative social enterprises to help tackle the world’s greatest problems and strive for a fairer society.
By leveraging the power of their people and their commercial acumen, will scale innovative, locally designed approaches that enable access to health and hygiene and create long-term, sustainable impact. Through working with social businesses, their investment will live over and over again as the enterprises grow, continuing to create jobs and economic empowerment, enable access and drive positive health outcomes.
Categories
- South Africa: Accelerating Grassroots innovations promoting access to water, Hygiene and Sanitation
- They are partnering with Yunus Social Business to call for social enterprises in South Africa to respond with their innovative approaches to creating greater access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH).
- The enterprises should address the following barriers to access to WASH:
- Improvements for broader and better access within the current model
- Innovation and decentralisation to create a better model for the future
- Enabling behaviour change and community engagement
- Brazil: Accelerating Grassroots innovations promoting access to water, Hygiene and Sanitation
- They are partnering with Yunus Social Business to call for social enterprises in Brazil to respond with their innovative approaches to creating greater access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH).
- The enterprises should address the following barriers to access to WASH:
- Improvements for broader and better access
- Innovation and decentralisation to create a better model for the future
- Enabling behaviour change and community engagement
- The UK: Accelerating innovative solutions improving access to Health in the UK
- The UK arm of the accelerator programme is delivered in partnership between Reckitt and Epiphany Social Innovation.
- Together, They will accelerate innovative solutions to promote access to health and health equity with the view to reduce the burden on the strained NHS
Benefits
- Bootcamps: Impact accelerating bootcamps, delivered by expert partners, tailored to unlock specific barriers to growth
- Mentorship: Expert mentorship from Reckitt’s people, specialists in health and hygiene and a wide range of business functions
- Funding: Seed funding to invest in growth to scale the business and drive positive health outcomes.
Audiences
- They also suggest that the selected solutions and businesses prioritise the following audiences:
- Women and girls
- Population in remote and rural areas
- Population in informal settlements and suburbs of urban centres
- Most vulnerable population in urban centres (favelas, risk areas)
Eligible Countries
- South Africa, Brazil and the UK.
Eligibility Criteria
- They are looking for businesses, start-ups, entrepreneurs, innovators, companies and civil society organizations with commercial solutions (products and services) that, in their application, cause changes and positive impacts on the lives of South African people and Brazilian people.
For more information, visit https://www.reckitt.com/sustainability/the-reckitt-fight-for-access-fund/reckitt-s-fight-for-access-accelerator/