Eco-Energy Liberia

SOLAR LAMP CHALLENGE; LIBERIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Solar lamps. 

Learn more about the Solar Lamp Challenge and how these lamps create enormous benefits for developing world families.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Eco-Energy's mission is to improve access to clean, safe, and affordable solar energy products in rural and off-grid communities of Liberia.

Eco-Energy will distribute superior quality and easy-to-use Solar Lamps to rural and Off-grid communities of Liberia through people-centered, courageous, talented, and trustworthy field agents who will be recruited locally, trained, and placed in a network to serve fragile communities. The enterprise will distribute lamps through an effective and efficient PayGo model tailored to suit the diverse needs of customers who reside in the remotest part of Liberia.

Eco-Energy was founded in 2022 by two motivated and passionate entrepreneurs who have an in-depth understanding of the energy sector of Liberia. The team is led by Nelson Papi Kolliesuah who serves as the Team Leader and a Co-founder. He is assisted by James M. Sumo, Jr. who is the Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Manager and is a Co-founder as well.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Directly reach 2,500 beneficiaries within 3 months

• Using 10 high-performing distribution agents, distribute 500 products/services in three months

• Fundraise an additional $10,000 USD from new donors or investors within three months

FOUNDING TEAM

Nelson Papi Kolliesuah - Team Leader

James M. Sumo, Jr. - Sales, Distribution and Marketing Manager

For Mom And Baby (FOMAB) Foundation

MATERNAL HEALTH CHALLENGE; cameroon

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Misoprostol.

Learn more about the Maternal Health Challenge and how the distribution of Misoprostol, a $3 drug that can prevent maternal deaths from postpartum hemorrhage, could save thousands of lives.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

For Mom And Baby (FOMAB) Foundation is on a mission to reduce maternal and neonatal deaths due to preventable causes in Cameroon with a particular focus on rural, fragile and internally displaced communities.

FOMAB Foundation will use a network of community health workers to identify pregnant women, initiate basic antenatal care, and connect them to the closest health facilities where they will get misoprotol-containing birth kits at a subsidised price for skilled delivery. Bringing basic antenatal care closer to women in the communities to ease follow-up and ensure prompt referral is what sets us apart. They plan to pilot this model in the South West Region of Cameroon which is a conflict-affected area with hundreds of internally displaced expectant women who lack access to pregnancy care.

The organization was founded in 2021 by Ashu Martha Egbe who is currently the President of the Foundation. Ngwashi Christabel and Nkwain Carlson joined the organisation in 2022 and together will oversee the operations of this project.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Directly reach 400 pregnant women within three months of launch

• Use 15 trained community health workers, distribute 360 misoprostol-containing delivery kits in three months

• Fundraise an additional $30,000 from new donors within three months

FOUNDING TEAM

Ashu Martha Egbe - Founder

GrainAid Agency

POVERTY GRADUATION; UGANDA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Poverty Graduation Program

Learn more about the Poverty Graduation Challenge and why an evidence-based program that combines cash or asset transfers with mentorship and other forms of financial and social support helps graduate the ultra poor from poverty.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

GrainAid Agency works with members of the local community especially women and youth, and other national and international organizations to overcome extreme poverty and hunger through creating access, improving, and diversifying livelihoods.

The GrainAid Agency model ensures that the extremely poor individuals in the community especially women and youth are empowered/enabled to graduate out of extreme poverty and achieve economic and social advancement through a combination of asset building, technical skills training, dedicated coaching and mentoring, and savings as well as social support. The focus on poverty alleviation for the extremely poor reflects our clarity of purpose and our approach which involves building implementation units within the communities, including recruitment and training of community facilitators among people based in the same community with a thorough understanding of the community makes our model affordable and acceptable by the entire community. The chosen solution (poverty graduation) is already proven to work around the world and our approach minimizes the chance of failure by over 95%.

GrainAid Agency was started by Emmanuel Curuma Obia and Gertrude Basirika who have over 18 years of experience in poverty eradication initiatives within Africa and are both passionate about efforts to address poverty and hunger. Emmanuel works full-time at GrainAid Agency as the Executive Director while Gertrude serves on the board of directors as the Treasurer.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Provide productive livelihood assets to 30 female heads of households thus impacting 120 members of their households, especially children by end of the pilot.

• Provide tailored skills training, coaching, and routine mentoring to 30 female heads of households for effective management of their livelihood initiatives by end of the pilot.

• Raise additional $50,000 by end of the first year

• Scale to serve 600 participants by year 2

FOUNDING TEAM

Emmanuel Curuma Obia - Executive Director

Gertrude Basirika - Board Member

Education Empowerment for Rural and Urban Slums

TEACHING AT THE RIGHT LEVEL CHALLENGE; KENYA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) is an education program that tailors instruction to the learning level of the child, rather than their age. The result is that basic literacy and numeracy are achieved by students before they finish primary school.

Learn more about the Teaching at the Right Level Challenge and other D-Prize Distribution Challenges.

 

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Education Empowerment for Rural and Urban slums (EERUI) delivers the evidence-based Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) program to make timely interventions geared towards equipping children left behind with basic literacy and numeracy skills to solidify their learning.

EERUI will use the regular in-service teachers for instruction delivery after training them on the TaRL approach. This is informed by the goal of leveraging the infrastructural capacity in government schools and embedding the TaRL approach within the school culture for sustainability and scale. The founding team will offer mentoring support to the teachers and monitor the implementation. Every day there will be one hour each for reading and math outside of normal class.

EERUI was founded in 2021 by Simon Wamu, Amos Ouma and Grace Ewoi. Simon works full time as the Chief Executive Officer.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Reach 300 learners across 3 schools within three months

• Recruit and train 9 facilitators

• Fundraise an additional $10,000 from new donors in three months

• Reach 4,000 students by the end of year 1

• Reach 12,000 students by the end of year 2

FOUNDING TEAM

Simon Wamu - Chief Executive Officer

Grace Ewoi - Project Officer

Amos Ouma - Content Developer

Growth Pathways

POVERTY GRADUATION; UGANDA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Poverty Graduation Program

Learn more about the Poverty Graduation Challenge and why an evidence-based program that combines cash or asset transfers with mentorship and other forms of financial and social support helps graduate the ultra poor from poverty.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Growth Pathways will implement a 12-month poverty graduation program focused on microenterprise development to help the ultra-poor develop sustainable livelihoods.

Growth Pathways uses a micro enterprise development program with six sequenced interventions: Targeting, business skills training, Conditional Cash Transfer, business savings group, mentoring and social integration. The program is implemented through a network of of Business Mentors and local leaders. The pilot is located in Kamuli District.

Growth Pathways is started in 2022 by Ssempebwa Joseph and Adur Joyce. Joseph serves as Growth Pathways program director.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Equip 60 participants with business and group saving training, seed capital and mentorship to increase income and savings

• Launch 20 sustainable enterprises within the community

• Fundraise an additional $20,000

• Scale to serve 345 participants by year 2

FOUNDING TEAM

Ssempebwa Joseph - Program Director

Adur Joyce - Partnership Manager

Ssemugooma Fred - Field Coordinator

AgriEn Network

QUALITY INPUTS CHALLENGE CHALLENGE; ZAMBIA

 PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Quality seeds and fertilizer as well as transportation of farm produce to market. 

Learn more about the Improved Farm Practices Challenge and why increasing the effective use of fertilizer has the potential to unlock significant crop yield for smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa.  

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

AgriEn Network will increase access to quality inputs and extension services to smallholder farmers in Zambia to help them grow and earn more.

AgriEn maintains an input distribution system that is anchored on extension services and market linkages in Eastern Zambia. It makes input accessible to farmers through a flexible access model that builds capacity of the farmer to scale their adoption over time. The venture creates opportunities for not only repeat business but sustainability in the adoption of the quality inputs through strategic linkages between farmers and a network of support organizations across the value chain.

AgriEn was founded in 2020 by a dynamic teams consisting of Yvonne Mtumbi Mwanza, Lawrence Shonga, Mwansa Lwanga, and Gordon Mwanza.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• 300 smallholder farmers enrolled over the first three months, impacting 1,800 people

• Raise additional $4,000 within first three months

• Reach 6,000 beneficiaries by the end of year 1

FOUNDING TEAM

Yvonne Mtumbi Mwanza - Director

Lawrence Shonga - Business Development Facilitator

Mwansa Lwanga - Communication and Marketing Facilitator

Gordon Mwanza - IT Support Associate

Rural Women and Children Development Initiative

MATERNAL HEALTH CHALLENGE; NIGERIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Misoprostol.

Learn more about the Maternal Health Challenge and how the distribution of Misoprostol, a $3 drug that can prevent maternal deaths from postpartum hemorrhage, could save thousands of lives.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Rural Women and Children Development Initiative (RUWOCHDI) aims to reduc postpartum hemorrhage through training and community distribution of misoprostol in rural communities of Sokoto then spreading throughout Nigeria.

RUWOCHDI model uses a revolving fund approach to train and distribute misoprostol. The venture will train traditional birth attendants (TBAs) and Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWs) on effective use of misoprostol to prevent postpartum hemorrhage and make it available as well as cost effective. To increase access RUWOCHI will procure misoprostol and distribute to clients through this network. The proceeds generated will be revolved to procure more misoprostol to sustain the program.

RUWOCHDI was founded by Saida Mansur Sani with Zainab Bashir as a co-founder.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Train 50 TBAs and CHEWs on the effective use of misoprostol to treat postpartum hemorrhage

• Distribute 800 Misoprostol pills in three months

• Fundraise an additional $10,000 from new donors within three months

FOUNDING TEAM

Saida Mansur Sani - Founder

Zainab Bashir - Co-founder

Ibukia Shambani

QUALITY INPUTS CHALLENGE CHALLENGE; TANZANIA

 PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Quality seeds, fertilizer, and post-harvest storage bags to smallholder farmers

Learn more about the Improved Farm Practices Challenge and why increasing the effective use of fertilizer has the potential to unlock significant crop yield for smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa.  

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Ibukia Shambani innovates access to the most comprehensive, quality, and productive agricultural inputs to smallholder last-mile farmers.

The social agribusiness enterprise was founded in 2022 by Abdallah Mabrouck, alongside two co-founders, Ayubu Mundekesye and Kelvin Robert. Both team members are experts in the agribusiness sector and have a passion for developing the agricultural sector as a whole.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Directly reach 100 smallholder farmers at last mile prior to the planting season

• Distribute 1 ton of quality maize seeds, 2.5 tons of DAP, 2.5 tons of UREA, and 100 liters of acetic acid as quality inputs to smallholder farmers in three months

• Fundraise an additional $10,000 from other interested partners and donors in three months

FOUNDING TEAM

Abdallah Mustapha Mabrouck - Project Lead

Ayubu Eliah Mundekesye - Business Development Lead

Kelvin Robert Mwise - Credit Management Lead

Prime Biomedical U Ltd

OXYGEN CHALLENGE; UGANDA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Service and repair of oxygen concentrators.

Learn more about the Oxygen Challenge and why repairing and maintaining oxygen concentrators in low-resource hospitals expands access to medical oxygen - a key treatment for pneumonia, malaria, sepsis, meningitis, and Covid-19.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Prime Biomedical U Ltd’s mission is to increase access to life-saving in remote and peri-urban Health Centres through timely maintenance and repair of oxygen concentrators in Western Uganda.

Prime’s Distribution model will entail the skilling of biomedical technicians based at a central Oxygen hub to implement a timely maintenance plan for oxygen concentrators at health centers in Western Uganda. Oxygen equipment users will also be trained on how to perform basic maintenance practices which go a long way in reducing user error faults to reduce downtime. Prime Biomedical is also uniquely placed to provide these services thanks to the existing capacity and expertise to manufacture some basic oxygen concentrator spares through 3D printing equipment and access to a fabrication lab.

Prime Biomedical was founded in 2017 by Leslie Turyahikayo.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Directly provide life-saving oxygen to 3,000 patients within three months

• Recruit and Train 2 Biomedical Technicians to Repair, Maintain and Service 50 Oxygen Concentrators at 5 Health centers within three months

• Directly provide life-saving oxygen to 9,000 patients within one year.

FOUNDING TEAM

Leslie Turyahikayo - Manager

Salama Centre for Global Family Health

SAYANA PRESS CHALLENGE; UGANDA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Sayana Press injectable contraceptive.  

Learn more about the Sayana®  Press Challenge and why training health providers to administer Sayana® Press can be particularly valuable for women who prefer injectable contraceptives but don’t have regular access.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Salama Centre for Global Family Health seeks to improve access to family planning services among women in underserved communities in Uganda.

Their model seeks to scale up distribution, access, and use of Sayana Press contraception through the private health networks in Jinja District. The private health networks will be recruited and trained to administer Sayana Press to women seeking contraception and train women to self-inject at the comfort of their homes.

Violette the team leader is an international development professional and was previously a GHC fellow serving with S.O.U.L Foundation. Alice has a clinical background with several years of experience in reproductive health, Joan has several years of experience in communication and stockholder engagements. Jovia will leverage her previous IT experience in multiple organizations to support the implementation of the venture.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Reach 500 women by the end of the pilot

• Distribute 1,000 doses of Sayana Press by the end of three months

• Raise an additional $30,000 by the end of three months

FOUNDING TEAM

Violette Hilda Nalutaaya - Team Leader

Jovia Tuhaise - Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

Joan Alupo - Communication and Knowledge Manager

Alice Nanteza - Technical Lead

Women for Women Uganda

PMTCT CHALLENGE; UGANDA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Retention in care and adherence to anti-retroviral treatment for people living with HIV. 

Learn more about the PMTCT Challenge and how increasing completion of antiretroviral therapy (ART) to prevent mother to child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV can decrease HIV rates and improve lives.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Women for Women Uganda aims to bridge the gap in health services delivery for underserved and disadvantaged communities by establishing and building local partnerships with communities.

Women 4 Women Uganda aims to use the Traditional Birth Attendant-mentor mother hybrid model to contribute to the Elimination of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV. The model is a sustainable approach to overcoming the barrier of geographic isolation faced by remote underserved communities of Kalangala district, an archipelago of 84 islands with limited access to health facilities by pregnant women living with HIV. For ease of integration into other government community health structures, the distribution of TBAs and Mentor mothers will be at the village level with an average of two mentor mothers and one TBA per village.

Women for Women Uganda was co-founded by three young women passionate about health equity in July 2021. Rebecca Mulungi a Fundraising and Communications Professional, Jane Frances Nakanwagi a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Expert, and Ruth Mary Kemigisha a Public Health Specialist.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Reach 300 beneficiaries during the pilot phase

• Distribute three interventions: Delivery of ART and psychosocial support reaching 300 women living with HIV, HIV counseling and testing reaching 600 women and their spouses, Linkage to safe antenatal and delivery services- 100 women linked to qualified health workers

• Raise an additional $5,000 during the pilot

FOUNDING TEAM

Rebecca Annette Mulungi - Team Lead

Jane Frances Nakanwagi - Monitoring, Evaluation, Assessment, and Learning Specialist

Ruth Mary Kemigisha - Public Health Specialist

Blesser Breakers

SUGAR DADDY AWARENESS CHALLENGE; ZAMBIA

Blesser Breakers won the 2022 Fletcher D-Prize. The Fletcher D-Prize is open to all Fletcher students, alumni, and Tufts undergraduates, and is part of a larger entrepreneurship ecosystem of support at Tufts University.

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Sugar Daddy Awareness classes. 

Learn more about the Sugar Daddy Awareness Challenge and how a simple, one-hour “sugar daddy awareness” training could help countless girls avoid pregnancy while still in school, which can lead to entrenched poverty, and build a better life.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Blesser Breakers aims to raise Sugar Daddy awareness by delivering a 3-part, 2-hour intervention to Grade 8 girls in Western Province, Zambia, to reduce risky cross-generational sexual relationships, in turn reducing the spread of HIV and unwanted pregnancy.  The intervention will consist of a 15-minute animated video screening (or comic book reading when technology is not available), and a facilitated discussion. To implement and distribute the programming, Blesser Breakers will partner with the Ministry of Education (for on-the-ground outreach, implementation, facilitators, and facilitator training).

Blesser Breakers was founded by Wabei Saboi from Mongu, Zambia, Ashira Pelt from Florida, USA, and Daniel Kibet from Eldoret, Kenya.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Reach 1,000 students during the three-month pilot

• Reach 5,000 students by the end of Year 1

• Reach 15,000 students by the end of Year 2

• Raise an additional $5,000 during the pilot

FOUNDING TEAM

Wabei Saboi - Project Lead

Ashira Pelt - Project Lead

Daniel Kibet - Project Lead

Easy Buy

SOLAR LAMP CHALLENGE; ZAMBIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Solar lamps. 

Learn more about the Solar Lamp Challenge and how these lamps create enormous benefits for developing world families.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Easy Buy’s mission is to improve lives through distributing cost effective solar products of superior quality to far flung areas in Zambia and beyond.

Easy Buy will distribute high tech, high quality Solar Lamps to Rural Off-grid and poor grid underserved communities across Zambia. Its mission is to improve the lives of Zambians through providing them clean and reliable light. Their model is to distribute solar lamps through local Community Based Distributors and Sales Representatives who will be recruited and trained to serve the communities they live in. The venture will distribute lamps through an improved and simplified PayGo model to suit customer who live in the remotest part of the country with no mobile money services which other similar ventures use.

The company was founded in 2022 by Misheck Nkhoma. He is joined by a team of like minded passionate individuals Emmanuel and Betty with vast experience in working with rural communities.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

•  Reach 1,200 beneficiaries during pilot

• Distribute 400 Pico Solar Lamps during the pilot

• Raise an additional $15,000 during the pilot

FOUNDING TEAM

Misheck Nkhoma - Executive Director

Emmanuel Tembo - Sales Executive

Betty Mukoka - Marketing Excutive

RUMO Energy

SOLAR LAMP CHALLENGE; TANZANIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Solar lamps. 

Learn more about the Solar Lamp Challenge and how these lamps create enormous benefits for developing world families.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

RUMO Energy increases the distribution of solar lamps in rural Tanzania through the rent-to-own model.

Their model is based on a competitive rent-to-own distribution through local entrepreneurs. The program targets entrepreneurs with influence and working together on mutually beneficial to support them to serve more people in their community. The RUMO Energy model is the best model to produce critical distribution networks in rural areas in Tanzania.

RUMO Energy was started on March 1, 2021, by Patrick Mkoma, Heri Marco and Sefania Amnon.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Directly reach 350 customers within three months

• Use 26 distribution agents, distribute 350 lanterns in three months

• Fundraise an addition of $30,000 from new donors and investors within three months

FOUNDING TEAM

Patrick Mkoma - Sales, Marketing & Revenue

Heri Marco - Business Development & Government Logistics

Sefania Amnon - Sales & Business Relationship

Samuel Mshana - Project Engineer & Technician

Sun Plugged

SOLAR LAMP CHALLENGE; ZIMBABWE

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Solar lamps. 

Learn more about the Solar Lamp Challenge and how these lamps create enormous benefits for developing world families.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Sun Plugged is a Zimbabwean-based renewable energy company aimed at distributing affordable renewable energy solutions to the last mile customer in the rural areas.

Their distribution model focuses on community empowerment through engaging community-based sales agents, also known as Community Energy Distributors (CEDs). The CEDs are well versed and are able to articulate better the needs of the community that they live in, making them our frontline and critical cog in the model. Sun Plugged uses Pay as You Go (PAYG) to plug the affordability gaps that currently exist within rural communities, in order to ensure clean renewable energy is accessible to all.

Sun Plugged was started in 2021 by Fidelis Mashonga, Shalom Makaya, Talent Mashonga and Albert Kazembe. Fidelis serves as the Chief Executive Officer, while Shalom is Operations Manager. Talent is the Accountant and Albert is the Sales Manager.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Sell 500 solar lamps that will directly benefit 2,500 people by the end of three months

• Sell 2,500 solar lamps that will directly benefit 15,000 people by the end of Year 1

• Raise an additional $150,000 in capital

FOUNDING TEAM

Fidelis Mashonga - Chief Executive Officer

Shalom Makaya - Operations Manager

Talent Mashonga - Accountant

Albert Kazembe - Sales Manager

SIRIUS Initiative

SAYANA PRESS CHALLENGE; RWANDA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Sayana Press injectable contraceptive.  

Learn more about the Sayana®  Press Challenge and why training health providers to administer Sayana® Press can be particularly valuable for women who prefer injectable contraceptives but don’t have regular access.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

SIRIUS Initiative is a social enterprise which delivers a community where everyone has access to modern contraception and every pregnancy is wanted.

SIRIUS (The brightest star in earth’s night sky) Initiative is created purposefully to tackle family planning unmet needs using a Peer-to-peer private dispensing model. A network of private dispensers will distribute SAYANA Press from our accredited store to their peers on affordable price, at door-step and at work (e.g. for sex workers) in Gasabo district (in pilot) where unmet needs of contraception is high in Rwanda.

The organization is a tightly-knighted team of 3 social entrepreneurs with a solid background in medical field and strong interests in sexual and reproductive health’s public health aspect. Emile NGABO as a coordinator and legal representative, Monique NSHUTI as Operations officer and Gratien ABANJYENZABARINDA as an officer in charge of Quality assurance, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (QA & MEAL).

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Reach 150 women in Kigali City - Gasabo District

• Distribute 150 SAYANA Press Injections (Doses)

• Reach 20,000 people by distributing 80,000 interventions (injections) by the end of Year 2

FOUNDING TEAM

Emile Ngabo- Coordinator

Monique Nshuti - Operations Officer

Gratien Abanjyenzabarinda - Quality Assurance Officer

Oxicare

OXYGEN CHALLENGE; INDIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Service and repair of oxygen concentrators.

Learn more about the Oxygen Challenge and why repairing and maintaining oxygen concentrators in low-resource hospitals expands access to medical oxygen - a key treatment for pneumonia, malaria, sepsis, meningitis, and Covid-19.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Oxicare is on a mission to serve over 1 Million patients by helping them service their Health Devices.

Oxicare was started with a simple mission- A Saved Life Saves Lives. The initiative’s business model revolves around recruiting and training jobless technicians from across the country and provide them job of repairing and maintaining Oxygen Concentrators in their local areas.

The organization was founded by full time Program Director Rajesh Bansal (Alumni IIT-Bombay) along with Anika Singal who has extensive experience of working as a Senior Consultant in Indian Government Advisory projects.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Reach 1,000 Customers by servicing 200 Concentrators

• Train 20 Bio Medical Engineers to service 200 Concentrators

• Raise an additional $15,000

FOUNDING TEAM

Rajesh Bansal - Director

Anika Singal - Director

Soma Organization

TEACHING AT THE RIGHT LEVEL CHALLENGE; RWANDA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) is an education program that tailors instruction to the learning level of the child, rather than their age. The result is that basic literacy and numeracy are achieved by students before they finish primary school.

Learn more about the Teaching at the Right Level Challenge and other D-Prize Distribution Challenges.

 

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Soma Organization meets struggling pupils at the level they are to help them get where they need to be.

The initiative will pilot the TaRL Model in Rwanda. The model will be centered on the pupils’ learning levels, and on the pupils, to encourage participation and responsiveness. Rather than a rigid linear curriculum, the content will be based on a pupil’s assessed learning level, and the delivery will be made fun and full of engaging activities. This will build confidence, ensure all-rounded growth and focus on foundational skills.

Soma Organization was founded by Kennedy Okello in 2021. The mission and vision of the intervention attracted like-minded individuals; Aline, Mike and Irene, forming a diverse and skilled team.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Onboard at least 15 facilitators

• Serve 250 grade 2 and 3 children

• Build a rigorous Program Design Team of at least 4 relevantly experienced and passionate staff

FOUNDING TEAM

Kennedy Okello - Program Designer

Aline Nishimwe - Project Coordinator

Irene Marra - Facilitation Lead

Better Women Health

MATERNAL HEALTH CHALLENGE; SOUTH SUDAN

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Misoprostol.

Learn more about the Maternal Health Challenge and how the distribution of Misoprostol, a $3 drug that can prevent maternal deaths from postpartum hemorrhage, could save thousands of lives.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Better Women Health (BWH) is distributing Misoprostol to reduce the high prevalence of PPH mortality, among millions of women giving birth at home, driven by remote settings of war torn South Sudan.

BWH’s model is based on “a low-cost-effective proven lifesaving solution. Together with the trained Community Health workers (CHWs), TBAs and Health workers; BWH registers pregnant women from 32 weeks of gestation to enable access to misoprostol at health facility delivery or home birth with an upskilled birth attendant. With support from BWH and Health workers, the CHWs & TBAs visit mothers at home and discuss birth preparedness plan, informing mothers of the benefits of taking misoprostol immediately after delivery to prevent excessive bleeding. BWH model is a dire demand to reduce preventable deaths resulting from PPH and saving more lives and easy to administer even by the mothers themselves.

BWH was started ten months ago (April 2021) by Judith Draleru Maturu of BHECO and Kiden Rose Buli a friend who questioned the quick solution to stop women dying from PPH. Seeing it through the tears in her eyes, made it especially personal and women for women struggle. Rose now serves as the BWH project coordinator.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Directly reach 200 women within three months

• Distribute 800 Misoprostol pills in three months

• Fundraise an additional $75,000 from new donors within three months

FOUNDING TEAM

Judith Draleru Maturu - Project Director

Rose Kiden Buli - Project Coordinator

ARC-EN-CIEL

QUALITY INPUTS CHALLENGE CHALLENGE; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

 PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Quality seeds, fertilizer, and post-harvest storage bags) to smallholder farmers

Learn more about the Improved Farm Practices Challenge and why increasing the effective use of fertilizer has the potential to unlock significant crop yield for smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa.  

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

ARC-EN-CIEL’s mission is to increase agricultural productivity as the major source of income and employment in the South-Kivu province that will help rural communities to move out of poverty.

ARC-EN-CIEL will distribute quality farm inputs (fertilizer, seeds and post-harvest storage bags) to smallholder farmers and provide extension services on better agronomic practices through village savings groups, farmer cooperatives, and existing hardware stores.

The company was started by Waciba Swedi W’amisiand who was joined later by Byamnobe Mlongeca Evariste, Bagula Mukengere Espoir and Joseph Mkakyo Mtambala. Waciba Swedi W'Amisi serves as the Managing Directror who will oversee all days activities of ARC-EN-CIEL

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• 100 smallholder farmers trained and given the needed inputs

• 100 inputs packages (seeds and fertilzers) and PICS bags distributed to 100 smallholder farmers

• Raise additional $10,000 within the three months

FOUNDING TEAM

Waciba Swedi W’amisi - Co-Founder and CEO

Byamnobe Mlongeca Evariste - Co-Founder and HR and Finance Manager

Bagula Mukengere Espoir - Co-Founder and Program Leads