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UNCDF launches Covid-19 Financial Health Challenge

US: California Humanities Relief Grants Program (Round 2)

Deadline: 26-Jun-20

United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) has launched a call for proposals for Covid-19 Financial Health Challenge.

The objective of the challenge is to raise awareness and inspire collective action toward improving the financial health of this new breed of workforce by crowdsourcing viable solutions from start-ups and MSMEs globally.

The challenge will be designed to:

The covid-19 pandemic has particularly brought this notion to the foreground. With billions of people around the globe confined to their homes due to the pandemic, many are experiencing job losses and reduced incomes. In such times, those that are financially resilient are less likely to be severely impacted than those that aren’t.

Are there (digital) products and services that could help individuals become more financially resilient and better prepared for adverse and unexpected financial futures? In other words, how could these solutions help people shore up their financial futures, so they are better prepared to weather income losses and/or unexpected emergency expenses? Is there a behavioural aspect they can explore in the way they design and deliver solutions so as to drive positive financial behaviours such as savings, asset-building and risk-mitigation?

UNCDF is looking for solutions that can clearly articulate how a product or service can enhance an individual’s financial resilience. In doing so, the solution can invoke design thinking, behavioural sciences and other approaches that are not merely product focused. The solution could take the shape of a financial product, a delivery channel or a learning tool. An ideal solution is one that considers data-driven approaches to design and deployment, is user-friendly, has a measurement mechanism to monitor and track progress and deployable at scale in the future.

Improving people’s financial health is a key enabler for inclusive growth and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), financial well-being is defined as “a state of being wherein you:

Funding Information

Eligibility Criteria

The challenge invites applications from companies and teams based on the following criteria:

For more information, visit https://www.uncdf.org/article/5682/rfa-covid-19-financial-health-challenge

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