Deadline: 30 June 2017
Do you have a justice innovation? If yes, then apply for the Innovating Justice Challenge 2017.
The HiiL Justice Accelerator is seeking applications from justice innovations, and talented individuals for its Innovating Justice Challenge 2017 in order to find and support the world’s best justice innovators.
Focus Areas
- Crime and Law Enforcement: innovations improving relations between citizens and police or improving crime reporting
- Family Justice: innovations helping families solve disputes or injustices around, for example, divorce, birth, child rights
- Neighbor Disputes: innovations creating efficient, effective, and fair ways to solve disputes between neighbors
- Employment Justice: innovations addressing employment disputes, business formalization, work conditions or job security
- Migration Justice: innovations tackling injustices felt by migrants including rights enforcement, safe travel, and basic security needs
- Land Disputes: innovations solving land disputes over title/ownership or improving protection of property rights
Award Information
Ten winners will receive up to 20,000 EUR for creating justice in their communities, plus business acceleration and more.
Eligibility Criteria
- The HiiL Justice Accelerator particularly encourages applications from Africa and the Middle East.
- The HiiL Justice Accelerator bases its work on the data gathered by HiiL Measuring Justice, regarding the most prevalent justice needs in a country.
- They particularly encourage applications from countries in which there has been a recent Justice Needs and Satisfaction report: Tunisia, Ukraine, and Uganda. They are also committed to working with the extensive and network of justice innovators in The Netherlands where they are based; Dutch entrepreneurs are likewise especially encouraged to apply.
- For Innovation:
- The founder and applicants should be 18 years of age or older.
- The venture must be committed to providing access to justice underpinned showing justice needs
- The person(s) with whom they engage should be the founder or a co-founder of the organization and should be able to make key, high-level, and direction-shifting decisions (such as whether or not to take investments and who to partner with) on behalf of the entire organization.
- The innovation must be able to demonstrate a focus on creating strong social and justice impact, a potential to scale, and a viable route to reaching financial sustainability.
- For Talent:
- The applicant should be 18 years of age or older
- The applicant should have proven entrepreneurial skill, talent, or mindset to create new innovations
- The applicants ideally should have an active engagement for justice or peace in their daily work, or be inspired to create such an engagement.
How to Apply
Interested applicants must apply online via given website.
For more information, please visit Innovating Justice Challenge.
