The UNFPA 2025 Equalizer Challenge: Scaling Women’s Health Innovations

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Application Deadline: May 4, 2025.

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025 UNFPA Equalizer Challenge: Scaling Women’s Health Innovations. UNFPA, in collaboration with MIT Solve, IE University and Women of Wearables, is launching The Equalizer Challenge: Scaling Women’s Health Innovations – an innovation problem designed to supply catalytic, equity-free funding whereas empowering innovators to amplify their influence and scale up transformative options for girls’s well being. The Equalizer Challenge is enabled by the beneficiant help from the Governments of Germany and Luxembourg to the UNFPA Equalizer Accelerator Fund.

Eligibility Requirements

• Women-led social enterprises⁴ registered and working in UNFPA programme nations with a scalable well being innovation addressing girls’s well being wants.
• Organizations – startups, social enterprises, non-profits and hybrid fashions – dedicated to increasing entry to essential girls’s well being options, with clear enterprise fashions and pathways to scale by way of markets or the general public sector.
• Applicants should present:
  

Program Details

• Wide-ranging assets: UNFPA’s help extends past equity-free funding, offering innovators with the assets to enter new markets and refine their influence fashions.
• Inclusive of all fashions: Impactful well being options take many varieties; social enterprises, non-profits, hybrid fashions and for-profits that includes a sustainable enterprise mannequin are all welcome. 
• Full mental property possession: Startups retain full rights to their improvements.
• Women’s well being on the core: As the UN sexual and reproductive well being company, UNFPA brings unparalleled experience and international attain to help innovators of their journey.
• Beyond buzzwords: This problem helps high-impact improvements that improve the well being of ladies and women.

Application Timeline:

• Call for submissions: April 9 – May 4, 2025.
• Winners introduced: June 2025.
•  Innovation help programme: June – November 2025.
• Catalytic funding: Up to $20,000 per winner.
• Global publicity: Direct entry to well being innovation networks, mentorship and traders.
•  Post-challenge help: Ongoing engagement, networking and participation in well being boards.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the UNFPA Equalizer Challenge: Scaling Women’s Health Innovations