Up to $50,000 Grants for Projects in the Sanitation and Hygiene 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 sixth challenge of the ten, applicants are required to deal with the issue of: How do we achieve universal access to equitable sanitation and hygiene by 2030? 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. RB has time and again reinstated its commitment towards SDG 6.2 by working tirelessly with local communities, government, NGOs and various charitable organisations around the world to improve levels of sanitation and end open defecation.

RB is proud to support the Lead2030 challenge for SDG 6. This challenge seeks to support solutions which work to achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of rural communities in developing economies where basic infrastructure is still lacking. There should be a particular focus on children, women/girls and those in the most vulnerable.

Aspects of Challenge 

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

• Incentivise and educate vulnerable females in rural communities to alleviate the practice of open defecation to not only prevent the spread of life threatening diseases but also to empower females to feel safe in their own communities.
• Drive focused behaviour change to ensure good hygiene practice and educate on self-sufficient practices to reduce the spread of preventable disease such as diarrhoea.
• Ensure basic sanitation facilities are not just developed but are sustainable in the long term allowing communities to feel empowered to maintain solutions for generations to come.

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 your solution by assisting with aspects such as:
  • Business strategy
  • Best practices for data collection
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Product design
  • Marketing

Selection Criteria

This challenge seeks 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.