D-Prize Challenges For Young Nigerian | Are you one of the aspiring entrepreneurs from anywhere in the world, of any age, and any background. If yes, join D-Prize and spend the next three months using your talent to start a venture that can grow and help millions of people. Read application guideline below.
About D-Prize Challenges For Young Nigerian Entrepreneurs
D-Prize seeds new ventures scaling access to evidence-based poverty interventions. Many solutions to poverty already exist. The challenge is distributing to the people who need them most. D-Prize work identifies effective interventions, then activates new entrepreneurs to scale delivery where distribution gaps exist.
- They will consider funding existing organizations only if you are distributing an existing intervention and you have a need for high-risk capital that cannot be supported by your current donors or revenue.
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Benefit for D-Prize Challenges For Young Nigerian Entrepreneurs 2024
- They will award the most promising teams with up to $20,000 USD to launch their new organization wherever extreme poverty exists.
- Have access to basic poverty-fighting tools.
D-Prize Challenges For Young Nigerian Entrepreneurs 2024
Select one of the high-impact products or services in need of greater global access.
Health
- Can you distribute a self-injectable contraceptive, Sayana® Press, to underserved women through a private health network?
- Can you develop a team of technicians to service and repair existing oxygen concentrators to improve access to medical oxygen?
- Can you develop a way to identify patients needing treatment for either obstetric fistula, cervical cancer, club foot, or cataracts, then connect them with existing treatment services in your area?
- Can you train birth attendants to administer misoprostol to prevent maternal deaths from postpartum hemorrhaging?
- Can you identify candidates for Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) and connect those that opt in to existing health facilities to reduce the risk of HIV acquisition?
- Can you counsel and motivate HIV-positive pregnant women to adhere to their ART regimen, and thus prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission?
- Can you direct caregivers to bring their infants to health facilities for routine immunizations that would otherwise not occur?
- Can you teach “sugar daddy awareness” to 8th grade classes to reduce unwanted teen pregnancies and HIV infections?
Check: NJFP Volunteer Mentor/Coach Recruitment form 2023
Water
- Can you sell ceramic water filters to people in areas without access to clean water?
Agriculture
- Can you provide smallholder farmers high-quality inputs and training proven to increase their harvests?
- Can you provide smallholder farmers post-harvest loans and storage technology proven to increase their incomes?
- D-Prize is specifically interested in distributing proven agriculture interventions to smallholder farmers. If you know of a highly-effective intervention that is backed by credible evidence, we want to hear what it is and see your plan to increase its distribution.
- D-Prize is interested in distributing proven livestock interventions to smallholder farmers. If you know of a highly-effective intervention backed by credible evidence, we want to hear what it is and see your plan to increase its distribution.
Livelihoods
- Can you provide business coaching, capital, and social support to lift people out of ultra poverty?
- D-Prize is specifically interested in distributing proven financial inclusion interventions to those in need. If you know of a highly-effective intervention backed by credible evidence, we want to hear what it is and see your plan to increase its distribution.
Energy
- Can you sell pico solar lamps to rural or slum-dwelling households without regular access to electricity?
Public Services
- Can you monitor and report data to reduce corruption and improve public service?
- Can you reduce road fatalities by mobilizing the public with a proven public transportation safety campaign?
Custom
- D-Prize is specifically interested in distributing proven poverty interventions to those in need. If you know of a highly-effective intervention that is backed by credible evidence, we want to hear what it is and see your plan to increase its distribution.
Eligibility for D-Prize Challenges For Young Nigerian Entrepreneurs 2024
- D-Prize is for aspiring entrepreneurs from anywhere in the world, of any age, and any background. The majority of our awardees have not launched nor raised any funding.
- D-Prize will consider funding existing organizations only if you are distributing an existing intervention and you have a need for high-risk capital that cannot be supported by your current donors or revenue.
- Existing organizations applying to D-Prize should have operated for no more than 18 months and raised no more than $30,000 in outside funding.
- They are only able to evaluate applications submitted in English. However, your English does not need to be perfect to apply, and grammar and vocabulary errors will not be penalized. We only want to understand your idea
How to Apply for D-Prize Challenges For Young Nigerian Entrepreneurs 2024
Interested applicants or organization who meet the criteria Click here and Apply
Timeline:
The next Global Competition launches in April 2024.