Deadline: 23-Jun-2024
Entries are now open for the D-Prize Challenge that supports organizations in any low-or-middle income country where extreme poverty still exists.
D-Prize believe the world needs more social impact organizations, and they seed for-profit ventures, NGOs, and charities.
D-Prize Challenges
- Health
- Self-Injectable Contraceptive Challenge:
- Can you distribute a self-injectable contraceptive, Sayana® Press, to underserved women through a private health network?
- Oxygen Challenge:
- Can you develop a team of technicians to service and repair existing oxygen concentrators to improve access to medical oxygen?
- Patient Identification Challenge:
- 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?
- Maternal Health Challenge:
- Can you train birth attendants to administer misoprostol to prevent maternal deaths from postpartum hemorrhaging?
- Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Challenge:
- 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?
- Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Challenge:
- Can you counsel and motivate HIV-positive pregnant women to adhere to their ART regimen, and thus prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission?
- Child Immunization Challenge:
- Can you direct caregivers to bring their infants to health facilities for routine immunizations that would otherwise not occur?
- Sugar Daddy Awareness Challenge:
- Can you teach “sugar daddy awareness” to 8th grade classes to reduce unwanted teen pregnancies and HIV infections?
- Self-Injectable Contraceptive Challenge:
- Water
- Clean Access to Water Challenge
- Can you sell ceramic water filters to people in areas without access to clean water?
- Clean Access to Water Challenge
- Agriculture
- Quality Inputs Challenge:
- Can you provide smallholder farmers high-quality inputs and training proven to increase their harvests?
- Post-Harvest Support Challenge:
- Can you provide smallholder farmers post-harvest loans and storage technology proven to increase their incomes?
- Propose Your Own Agriculture Challenge:
- 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, they want to hear what it is and see your plan to increase its distribution.
- Propose Your Own Livestock Challenge:
- D-Prize is interested in distributing proven livestock interventions to smallholder farmers. If you know of a highly-effective intervention backed by credible evidence, they want to hear what it is and see your plan to increase its distribution.
- Quality Inputs Challenge:
- Livelihoods
- Poverty Graduation Challenge:
- Can you provide business coaching, capital, and social support to lift people out of ultra poverty?
- Propose Your Own Financial Inclusion Challenge:
- 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, they want to hear what it is and see your plan to increase its distribution.
- Poverty Graduation Challenge:
- Energy
- Solar Lamp Challenge:
- Can you sell pico solar lamps to rural or slum-dwelling households without regular access to electricity?
- Solar Lamp Challenge:
- Public Services
- Government Transparency Challenge:
- Can you monitor and report data to reduce corruption and improve public service?
- Road Safety Challenge:
- Can you reduce road fatalities by mobilizing the public with a proven public transportation safety campaign?
- Government Transparency Challenge:
- Custom
- Propose Your Own Challenge:
- 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, they want to hear what it is and see your plan to increase its distribution.
- Propose Your Own Challenge:
Funding Information
- All winners will be awarded up to $20,000. The award is offered in the form of a convertible grant.
Eligibility Criteria
- D-Prize challenges are open to anyone or any team. The sole restriction is that individuals and their immediate family on the judging panel may not participate as a contestants.
- D-Prize is also open to any business model (for-profit, non-profit, and everything in between).
- You are not competing against other applicants. They typically fund at least 15 proposals per competition, regardless of which challenge track was selected.
For more information, visit D-Prize.