Deadline: 17-Apr-23

The One Young World has announced a Lead2030 Challenge for SDG 6, supported by Reckitt, to support innovations that create measurable impact by enabling access to clean water, sanitation or hygiene, and are particularly interested in innovations with a focus on children or women/girls.

The focus of this challenge is not limited to providing equitable basic sanitation and hygiene facilities but to also creating a sustainable ecosystem that ensures, year after year, continuous development and increasing awareness. Reckitt believes social business has a powerful role to play in solving the world’s greatest problems, where investment lives over and over again through income generating models that make solutions truly sustainable and long term. Through this, Reckitt wants to work as a catalyst, supporting pioneering solutions to scale.

Reckitt is proud to have supported the Lead2030 SDG6 challenge since 2019, working in partnership with 3 outstanding social entrepreneurs with innovative approaches to tackling SDG6.

Whilst Reckitt are interested to receive applications that target at a wide range of areas within WASH, there is a particularly interest in hearing about innovations that do either of the following:

• Make innovative use of digital technology to reach more people and enable access to water, sanitation, and hygiene on a wide scale.
• Promote good hand hygiene practices amongst underserved communities

Prize Information

The winning solution will receive:

• Sponsorship to participate in the One Young World Summit 2023.
• A US$50,000 grant from Reckitt.
• 12 months of mentorship from a team of Reckitt professionals. The mentorship team will work to accelerate your solution based on the needs of your initiative or organisation.

Eligibility Criteria

• Aligned: Evidently aligned with the SDG6 challenge.
• Youth-led: Founded by a person aged 18 – 30.
• Focused: Well-structured time horizon, identified key stakeholders and beneficiaries, and proposed outcomes that are reasonable and well thought out.
• Proven: Solution is readily available, being piloted, implemented, or scaled
• Impactful: Solutions must have a positive social impact, for example, generating educational outcomes, employment opportunities, or developing skills.
• Measurable: Solution’s impact in society must be adequately measured and/or be measurable.
• Financially viable: Must be able to achieve efficiency and to survive independently through the resources they generate and/or the investments and donations they attract.
• Scalable: Potential to grow impact after expanding in scope or size and/or into other regions.

For more information, visit One Young World.