Deadline: 01 December, 2021
One Young World has announced a call for participation in the Afri-Plastics Challenge.
The Afri-Plastics Challenge seeks to develop early-stage products, technology and/or services to encourage the reduction or elimination of plastic usage across sub-Saharan Africa.
Benefits
- First place: £750,000
- Second place: £250,000
- Third place: £100,000
Eligibility
- Entrant must have a new or early-stage idea that seeks to reduce or eliminate plastic usage across sub-Saharan Africa
- Entrant can be formally constituted and operating in sub-Saharan Africa as either a registered business or non-governmental organisation (NGO)
- Entrant can be an individual, single entity (organisation or community group), an African partnership or an international partnership
- For partnership entries, the lead entrant must be operating in sub-Saharan Africa
To enter and for more information, click here.
Photo source: BBC World Service
