Association Burkinabè de Fundraising

Can you design a new company or NGO that offers a proven intervention against poverty on a large scale? Submit your design for a new organisation that solves one of the challenges of distribution.

The world has already invented products and services to end poverty. Yet they have found many proven interventions with major delivery gaps. Millions of people still do not have access to the basic tools to fight poverty.

D Prize Challenges

• Health
  • The challenge of self-injectable contraception : Can you distribute a self-injectable contraceptive, Sayana Press, to underserved women via a private health network?
  • Oxygen Challenge : can you develop a team of technicians to maintain and repair existing oxygen concentrators to improve access to medical oxygen?
  • Patient identification challenge Can you develop a way of identifying patients needing treatment for obstetric fistula, cervical cancer, clubfoot or cataracts, and then linking them with existing treatment services in your area?
  • Maternal health challenge : Can you train birth attendants to administer misoprostol to prevent maternal deaths due to post-partum haemorrhage?
  • The challenge of voluntary medical male circumcision Can you identify candidates for voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) and connect those who opt for existing health facilities to reduce the risk of contracting HIV?
  • The challenge of preventing mother-to-child transmission: Can you advise and motivate HIV-positive pregnant women to take their antiretroviral treatment and thus prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV?
  • Children's vaccination challenge : can you order carers to take their infants to health facilities for routine vaccinations that would not otherwise take place?
  • Sugar Daddy awareness challenge Can you teach "Sugar Daddy awareness" to Year 8 classes to reduce unwanted teenage pregnancies and HIV infections?
• Water
  • Clean Access to Water Challenge Can you sell ceramic water filters to people living in areas without access to drinking water?
• Education
  • Teaching at the right level Challenge : Can you teach basic reading and maths skills to primary school pupils in a class with limited resources?
• Agriculture
  • The challenge of quality inputs : Can you provide small-scale farmers with high-quality inputs and proven training to increase their harvests?
  • Post-harvest support challenge : can you provide small farmers with post-harvest loans and proven storage technology to boost their income?
  • Submit your own farming challenge D-Prize is specifically interested in the distribution of proven agricultural 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 for increasing its distribution.
  • Propose your own breeding challenge: D-Prize wants to distribute 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.
• Means of subsistence
  • End-of-studies challenge on poverty 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 particularly interested in delivering proven financial inclusion interventions to those who need them. 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.
• Energy
  • Solar Lamp Challenge : Can you sell solar pico lamps to rural or slum households without regular access to electricity?
• Public services
  • The challenge of open government Can you monitor and communicate data to reduce corruption and improve public service?
  • Road safety challenge : Can you reduce the number of deaths on the roads by mobilising the public with a proven public transport safety campaign?
• Personalized
  • Propose your own challenge: D-Prize is particularly interested in delivering proven anti-poverty interventions to those who need them. If you know of a highly effective intervention backed by credible evidence, they want to hear what it is and see your plan for increasing its distribution.

Information on financing

They will award the most promising teams up to USD 20,000 to launch their new organisation wherever extreme poverty exists.

Managing winning projects

In addition to direct funding, D-Prize can help your business attract future funding if the pilot project proves successful. They will also give you access to the D-Prize network of past winners and do their best to support you in other ways.

Eligibility criteria

• The D-Prize is aimed at budding entrepreneurs from all over the world, of all ages and backgrounds. The majority of their winners have neither launched nor raised any funding.
• They will only consider funding existing organisations if you are distributing an existing intervention and have a high-risk capital requirement that cannot be supported by your current donors or income.
• Existing organisations applying for the D-Prize must not have been in operation for more than 18 months and must not have raised more than 30,000 $ in external funding.
• They apologise, but at the moment they can only assess applications submitted in English. However, your English doesn't have to be perfect to apply, and grammatical and vocabulary errors won't be penalised. They just want to understand your idea.

For more information, go to D-Prize .