Challenges
The Fletcher D-Prize is structured around several key poverty challenges with proven solutions. Applicants can select from one of the pre-established challenges described below or create their own.
AGRICULTURE CHALLENGES:
Quality Inputs Challenge
Can you provide smallholder farmers high-quality inputs and training proven to increase their harvests?
Post-Harvest Support Challenge
Can you provide smallholder farmers post-harvest loans and storage technology proven to increase their incomes?
Propose your own Agriculture Challenge
Fletcher D-Prize is interested in distributing proven agriculture interventions to smallholder farmers. If you know of a highly-effective intervention that is backed by credible evidence, we want to hear what it is and see your plan to increase its distribution.
Propose your own Livestock Challenge
Fletcher D-Prize is interested in distributing proven livestock interventions to smallholder farmers. If you know of a highly-effective intervention backed by credible evidence, we want to hear what it is and see your plan to increase its distribution.
CLEAN WATER CHALLENGES:
Water Filter Challenge
Can you sell ceramic water filters to people in areas without access to clean water?
ENERGY CHALLENGES:
Solar Lamp Challenge
Can you sell pico solar lamps to rural or slum-dwelling households without regular access to electricity?
HEALTH ACCESS CHALLENGES:
Self-Injectable Contraceptive Challenge
Can you distribute a self-injectable contraceptive, Sayana® Press, to underserved women through a private health network?
Oxygen Challenge
Can you develop a team of technicians to service and repair existing oxygen concentrators to improve access to medical oxygen?
Patient Identification Challenge
Can you develop a way to identify patients needing treatment for either obstetric fistula, cervical cancer, club foot, or cataracts, then connect them with existing treatment services in your area?
Maternal Health Challenge
Can you train birth attendants to administer misoprostol to prevent maternal deaths from postpartum hemorrhaging?
Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Challenge
Can you counsel and motivate HIV-positive pregnant women to adhere to their ART regimen, and thus prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission?
Child Immunization Challenge
Can you direct caregivers to bring their infants to health facilities for routine immunizations that would otherwise not occur?
Sugar Daddy Awareness Challenge
Can you teach “sugar daddy awareness” to 8th grade classes to reduce unwanted teen pregnancies and HIV infections?
LIVELIHOODS CHALLENGE:
Poverty Graduation Challenge
Can you provide business coaching, capital, and social support to lift people out of ultra poverty?
Propose Your Own Financial Inclusion Challenge
Fletcher D-Prize D-Prize is interested in distributing proven financial inclusion interventions to those in need. If you know of a highly-effective intervention backed by credible evidence, we want to hear what it is and see your plan to increase its distribution.
Reading Glasses Challenge
Can you distribute non-prescription reading/working glasses to those in need?
PUBLIC SERVICES CHALLENGES:
Government Transparency Challenge
Can you monitor and report data to reduce corruption and improve public service?
Road Safety Challenge
Can you reduce road fatalities by mobilizing the public with a proven public transportation safety campaign?
EDUCATION CHALLENGES:
Teaching at the Right Level Challenge
Can you improve foundational literacy and numeracy in resource-limited classrooms by
implementing the proven Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) program?
ConnectEd Phone-based Tutoring Challenge
Can you improve foundational literacy and numeracy in underserved primary school learners by distributing the proven ConnectEd phone based intervention?
Propose Your Own Challenge
Propose your own challenge! If you know of another proven intervention in need of greater distribution, we would like to hear it. The only requirements are to choose an already proven poverty solution that is in need of distribution to more people in the developing world.