Deadline: 18 November 2016
Are you from Tanzania? Are you aged above 18 years? Are you an innovator, entrepreneur, developer or solution provider? Would you like to show how data and the use of data can make a change in people’s lives? If yes, then apply for DLI Innovation Challenge.
The Data for Local Impact (DLI) Innovation Challenge will award grants to Tanzanians (both individuals and organizations) who have creative ideas about how to use or combine data – including open data – in new ways to gain insights or empower people through access to life-changing information. The DLI Innovation Challenge also aims to engage, support, and connect Tanzanian innovators, developers, and solution providers to each other and to opportunities to make a difference in people’s lives.
The DLI Innovation Challenge supports the Sustainable Development Goals and aims to contribute to progress in the areas of Health and Wellbeing (SDG 3), Gender Equality (SDG 5), and Decent Work and Economic Growth (SDG 8). The DLI Innovation Challenge team will award grants to local innovators with the best solutions through a competitive process of up to five Challenges.
Funding Information
- During each Challenge Window, the DLI Innovation Challenge will award both small grants (up to US$25,000 each) and large grants (up to US$100,000 each) to Tanzanian individuals and organizations based on specific evaluation criteria.
- For each Challenge Window, DLI expect to award about 12 grants in the range of US$10,000-25,000 each, along with two grants in the range of US$75,000-100,000.
- The DLI Innovation Challenge team will collaborate with grantees to develop their ideas into workable solutions that align with the Challenge themes.
- Solutions can be processes, applications and/or tools that solve a specific problem in each theme.
Benefits
- Winners of the DLI Innovation Challenge will receive grants to enable them to develop the proposed solution over a period 3-6 months.
- In addition to receiving financial assistance, winners will be paired with a mentor who will help them develop their innovative ideas into a final product.
- Winners will also receive training and grant management support from the DLI Innovation Challenge team.
Challenge Themes
- Access to Quality Healthcare and Information – Design innovative solutions, processes, and/or tools that leverage available open data, such as the Health Facilities Registry, to strengthen linkages between health facilities and community structures and to enable better access among people in rural communities to available health services, resources and products.
- Empowering Citizens – Design innovative solutions, processes, and/or tools to facilitate communication among girls and/or their parents to identify, share, and manage adolescent reproductive health issues, including menstrual-related challenges faced by school girls, with the ultimate objective of helping to keep young women and girls in school.
- Feedback from Community – Design solutions, processes and/or tools – or expand on existing tools and services – that use available open data (such as the Health Facilities Registry) alone or in combination with other data, to promote social accountability monitoring and active participation of citizens in providing feedback on health service quality and provider performance.
Eligibility Criteria
The Challenge is open only to Tanzanian individuals, groups, collaborations and/or legally registered organizations.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can apply via given website.
Eligible Country: Tanzania
For more information, please visit DLI Innovation Challenge.