Applications Invited for Lead2030 Challenge for SDG 6

About the Organization

We are One Young World, empowering and growing younger leaders to construct a good, sustainable future for all.

It all begins with the annual One Young World Summit – the beating coronary heart of what we’re about. For younger leaders, the Summit is the landmark occasion of the 12 months. It is an opportunity for the people accountable for shaping the way forward for our world, to come back collectively to confront the largest challenges dealing with humanity. The Summit is the final word place to be impressed, share learnings, and join. Together we elevate the bar for what it’s potential to attain as leaders, individually and collectively. The One Young World Summit 2025 will happen in Munich, Germany from 3 – 6 November 2025.

About the Fund

Access to protected water, sanitation and hygiene are fundamental human rights and important for public well being and financial prosperity. Yet, progress in direction of SDG 6 is off-track. 2.2 billion individuals nonetheless lack entry to protected ingesting water, and half of the world’s inhabitants face extreme water shortage for at the very least part of the 12 months (1). Additionally, 3.5 billion individuals lack entry to securely managed sanitation whereas 419 million nonetheless observe open defecation. According to UNICEF, nearly half of colleges worldwide lack handwashing amenities with water and cleaning soap, affecting 802 million youngsters (2). Such limitations result in wider unfold of great illnesses resembling diarrhoea and pneumonia, the main causes of dying for younger youngsters underneath 5 around the globe. Meeting SDG 6 targets by 2030 requires a 4x improve in tempo of progress.

Reckitt has repeatedly reinstated its dedication in direction of SDG 6 by working tirelessly with native communities, social enterprises, authorities, NGOs and numerous charitable organizations around the globe to enhance entry to scrub water, sanitation and hygiene. Through Reckitt’s partnership with Water.org, over 2.4 million individuals now have entry to scrub water or sanitation of their properties. In 2024, college programmes, just like the Dettol Hygiene Quest have introduced high-quality hygiene training to 24.5 million youngsters in additional than 15 nations, decreasing water-borne illnesses and absenteeism.

Reckitt believes social entrepreneurship has a robust position to play in fixing the world’s biggest challenges. With a portfolio of over 60 entrepreneurs, Reckitt acts as a catalyst working with knowledgeable companions like Yunus Social Business and Health Innovation Exchange to scale pioneering options and construct sustainable enterprise fashions.

Reckitt is proud to have supported the Lead2030 SDG6 problem since 2019, working with 11 WASH entrepreneurs to this point. We need to construct on this success in 2025, by supporting improvements that create measurable influence by enabling entry to scrub water, sanitation or hygiene, and are significantly focused on improvements with a concentrate on youngsters or ladies/ladies.

The focus of this problem will not be restricted to offering equitable entry to fundamental water, sanitation and hygiene amenities however to additionally making a sustainable ecosystem that ensures, 12 months after 12 months, steady improvement and growing consciousness.

Whilst Reckitt have an interest to obtain purposes that focus on at a variety of areas inside WASH, there’s a explicit curiosity in listening to about improvements that do both of the next:

• Make progressive use of digital expertise and AI to achieve extra individuals and allow entry to water, sanitation, and hygiene on a large scale
• Promote good hand hygiene practices and cut back water-borne illnesses
• Help us deal with WASH associated challenges in our price chain supporting Reckitt’s Water constructive agenda e.g. water recycling and reuse at factories

Prize

The successful resolution will obtain:

• Sponsorship to take part within the One Young World Summit 2025.
• A US$50,000 grant from Reckitt.
• 12 months of mentorship from a staff of Reckitt professionals. The mentorship staff will work to speed up your resolution based mostly on the wants of your initiative or organisation.

Eligibility

• Aligned: Evidently aligned with the SDG6 indicators.
• Youth-led: Founded by an individual aged 18 – 30.
• Focused: Clear implementation and scale-up plan, recognized key stakeholders and beneficiaries, and proposed outcomes which are affordable and nicely thought out.
• Proven: Solution is available, being piloted, carried out, or scaled.
• Impactful: Solutions will need to have a constructive social influence, for instance, selling well being, producing academic outcomes, or employment alternatives.
• Measurable: Solution’s influence in society have to be adequately measured.
• Financially viable: Must be capable of obtain effectivity and to outlive independently by means of the sources they generate and/or the investments and donations they appeal to.
• Scalable: Potential to develop influence after increasing in scope or measurement and/or into different areas.

How to Apply

26 May 2025: Applications shut.

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