Challenge statement

Challenge Prize overview (methodology)

Challenge Prizes are a tried and tested method for supporting innovation. They offer a reward to those who can first or most effectively meet a defined challenge. They act as an incentive for meeting a specific challenge, rather than being a reward for past achievements. Prizes are also a means of throwing open a challenge beyond the ‘usual suspects,’ thus facilitating the engagement and participation of anyone who can solve the challenge.

Challenge statement

The Afri-Plastics Challenge Strand 1: Accelerating Growth is looking to achieve the following:

Scale existing solutions that improve plastic waste management in a socially and environmentally responsible way, to reduce the presence of marine plastic litter across Sub-Saharan Africa.

By the end of the Challenge successful solutions will have demonstrated an effective, sustainable and replicable model for significantly increasing their collection and processing of plastic waste, as well as the empowerment of women and girls.

Photography: unsplash.com