Deadline: 29th September 2023 | The Youth Well-Being Prize Competition 2023(up to $50 000)
| Title: | The Youth Well-Being Prize Competition 2023(up to $50 000) |
| Organisation: | The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) |
| Fund/Benefit | $50,000 |
| Deadline: | 29th September 2023 |
| Eligible countries: | All countries |
Are you a youth between the ages of 10 and 29 who has ideas for how to use digital tools to enhance the wellbeing of other youth? Do you have suggestions for innovative uses of technology to broaden young people’s understanding of issues that affect them? The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking inventive thinkers who can provide solutions to today’s most serious problems in health. Could it be you? If yes, enter the Youth Well-Being Prize Competition 2023 (up to $50 000) right away!
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The Youth Well-Being Prize Competition 2023(up to $50 000) seeks to improve young people’s access to information as well as to assure their leadership and participation in developing informational campaigns and awareness-raising materials about topics that influence their well-being.
The Youth Well-Being Prize Competition seeks out young leaders with creative suggestions for preserving youth safety, enhancing youth well-being, and improving the lives and communities of both themselves and their peers.
In the areas of mental health, digital harm, safeguarding, gender-based violence, and climate change, USAID is looking for solutions developed by young people, for young people, and these solutions should take into account the variety of identities of young people:
- Ideas pertaining to children’s and adolescents’ mental health. Applicants who are interested in mental health, individualised treatment, psychotherapy, or any other interventions that lessen stress and enhance the lives of adolescents should submit an application. The goal of the invention should be to improve youths’ overall, interpersonal, and/or individual well-being.
- Digital Harm: The usage of digital platforms (like social media) and safety should be the focus of innovations in this category. Participants who are interested in decreasing digital harm for children and youth that is brought on by online platforms and/or digital use, including digital harm done offline, should apply in this area. Hate speech, cyberbullying, doxing, deep faking of individuals without their agreement, nonconsensual explicit content, misinformation and disinformation are a few examples of digital harm.
- Innovations in this area should deal with child and/or youth abuse, exploitation, neglect, and violence prevention and/or response, particularly sexual exploitation, abuse, and violence prevention and/or response. Applicants for this category should be interested in stopping violence against children and young people in all its manifestations.
- Gender-Based Violence: In this category, innovations should aim to counteract harmful behaviours or threats that prey on people or groups based on their actual or perceived sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sex characteristics, sexual orientation, or how they question conventional notions of masculinity and femininity. Applicants for this category should be interested in gender equity, gender equality, and the prevention, mitigation, and response to gender-based violence.
- Climate Change: Innovations in this category should focus on raising public awareness of climate change, enhancing climate education, promoting sustainable lifestyles, protecting the environment, utilising renewable energy, adopting eco-friendly practises, and/or carrying out projects to adapt to and mitigate climate change. Those who are interested in reducing the high levels of anxiety and grief related to climate change among children and young people should apply in this area.
Prize Specifics
- $50,000 in total cash rewards
- There will be a total of 15 prizes given out to the winners of the first, second, and third places in the areas of digital harm, mental health, safeguarding, gender-based violence, and climate change.
Digital Damage
- $5000 for first place.
- Runner-Up: $3,000
- Place 3: $2,000
Mental Wellness
- $5000 for first place.
- Runner-Up: $3,000
- Place 3: $2,000
Safeguarding
- $5000 for first place.
- Runner-Up: $3,000
- Place 3: $2,000
Male-On-Female Violence
- $5000 for first place.
- Runner-Up: $3,000
- Place 3: $2,000
First Place in Climate: $5,000
- Runner-Up: $3,000
- Place 3: $2,000
Conditions for Eligibility
- Please review the eligibility requirements below before entering the competition for the Youth Well-Being Prize:
- You must be a youth-led organisation or between the ages of 10 and 29.
- You have a suggestion for enhancing the wellbeing of young people in the areas of mental health, climate change, digital harm, safety.
- This is a global appeal for answers.
- Any prior professional or academic background in a certain field or subject is not required.
- Note: Prize money cannot be awarded to nations who are subject to OFAC sanctions.
Visit USAID for additional information.
