Up to $50,000 Grants for Projects in the Health and Hunger Eradication Fields 2019

As a means of acheiving Sustainable Development Goals, Lead 2030, in collaboration with Reckitt Benckiser -a company that offers health and hygiene services- is offering young people around the world the chance to participate in its funded youth-led initiative. The initiative includes ten challenges, in the second challenge of the ten, applicants are required to deal with the issue of How to end hunger by 2030? This challenge seeks to support solutions which work to end malnutrition. Challenge submissions must focus on: achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age or addressing the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, older persons or pregnant and lactating women.

Providing innovative solutions for healthier lives and happier homes enables RB to support the delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by working to eradicate the burden of preventable disease, improving infant and child nutrition (particularly during the first 1000 days) and helping the world live more sustainably within its planetary boundaries. Critical to this is how people integrate sustainability into their day-to-day business operations and across their value chains. The company's mission is to nourish the world's children for the best start in life.

Aspects of Challenge

Applicants should demonstrate impact in at least one of the following areas:

• Ensure pregnant and lactating women have the best nutrition and sanitation conditions in undernourished populations to reduce stunting in the first 1000 days, the risk of low-birth-weight neonates and adverse perinatal outcomes.
• Ensure children under 5 years old do not suffer from hunger and ensure they receive the adequate nutrients to support their mental and physical development.

Award

• A $50,000 grant from RB.
• 12 months of mentorship from a team of RB employees and partners. The mentorship team will work to accelerate solutions by assisting with aspects such as:
  • Business strategy
  • Best practices for data collection
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Product design
  • Marketing

Selection Criteria

This challenges seek solutions which meet the following criteria:

1. Aligned: Evidently aligned with the SDG challenge.
2. Youth-led: Founded by a person aged 18 - 30.
3. Focused: Well-structured time horizon, identified key stakeholders and beneficiaries, and proposed outcomes that are reasonable and well thought out.
4. Proven: Readily available, in or past implementation phase.
5. Impactful: Solutions must have a positive social impact, for example generating employment, eradicating poverty, or developing skills.
6. Measurable: Impacts of solutions must have been adequately measured and/or be measurable.
7. Financially Viable: Must be able to achieve efficiency and to survive on their own through the resources they generate and/or the investments and donations they attract.
8. Scalable: Potential to perform as well or better after expanding in scope or size and/or being transported to other regions.