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Competition Overview: The Youth Well-Being Prize Competition seeks young change-makers aged 10 to 29 with innovative solutions, focusing on accessibility of educational materials and essential information for young people. These solutions should promote inclusive knowledge, ensuring equal access to relevant and respectful education irrespective of background. USAID seeks solutions by and for young people, prioritizing inclusivity in areas like mental health, digital safety, gender-based violence, and climate change.
Mental Health: Ideas that focus on the mental health of children and youth. Competitors interested in mental health, personalized care, psychotherapy, or any interventions that help reduce stress and improve the lives of young people should apply here. The innovation should aim to enhance individual, interpersonal, and/or overall well-being for youth.
Digital Harm: Innovations in this category should relate to use of digital platforms (such as social media) and safety. Competitors interested in reducing digital harm as caused by online platforms and/or digital use, including digital harm done offline for children and youth should apply in this category. Digital harm can include any of the following: hate speech, cyberbullying, doxing, deep fakes of people without their consent, nonconsensual explicit content, misinformation and disinformation, etc.
Safeguarding: Innovations in this category should relate to prevention and/or response to child and/or youth abuse, exploitation, neglect, and violence including prevention and/or response to sexual exploitation, abuse, and violence. Competitors interested in protection from and elimination of all forms of violence against children and young people should apply in this category.
Gender-Based Violence: Innovations in this category should work against harmful actions or threats that target individuals or groups based on their actual or perceived sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sex characteristics, sexual orientation, or how they challenge traditional ideas of masculinity and femininity. Competitors interested in gender equality, equity, and preventing, mitigating, and responding to gender-based violence should apply in this category.
Climate Change: Innovations in this category should relate to building climate awareness, improving climate education, promoting sustainable lifestyles, conserving nature, supporting renewable energy, adopting environmentally friendly practices, and/or implementing climate adaptation and mitigation projects. Those interested in youth-led and children-led climate mitigation efforts and reduction in high levels of climate anxiety and grief among children and young people should apply in this category.
About United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance. With a budget of over $27 billion, USAID is one of the largest official aid agencies in the world and accounts for more than half of all U.S. foreign assistance—the highest in the world in absolute dollar terms.
Benefits of USAID Youth Well-Being Prize Competition
Total cash prizes: $50,000
Prizes will be awarded to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners in the categories of digital harm, mental health, safeguarding, gender-based violence, and climate change for a total of 15 prizes. Please see the prize breakdown below:
Digital Harm
- 1st Place: $5,000
- 2nd Place: $3,000
- 3rd Place: $2,000
Mental Health
- 1st Place: $5,000
- 2nd Place: $3,000
- 3rd Place: $2,000
Safeguarding
- 1st Place: $5,000
- 2nd Place: $3,000
- 3rd Place: $2,000
Gender-Based Violence
- 1st Place: $5,000
- 2nd Place: $3,000
- 3rd Place: $2,000
Climate
- 1st Place: $5,000
- 2nd Place: $3,000
- 3rd Place: $2,000
Prize Disbursement
Once winners are selected and notified, they should submit bank account information within two weeks of notification of award. Prize awards will be paid in U.S. dollars to the bank account provided by the winner. USAID is not responsible for any levies or taxes that may be associated with winning a prize award.
Prizes will not be awarded to an organization from, or with a principal place of business in, a country subject to trade and economic sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the Department of Treasury, or to any individual or entity subject to targeted trade and economic sanctions administered by OFAC. Winners will be checked against OFAC sanctions lists before the prize award is disbursed.
Awards do not signal an ongoing relationship with USAID and do not require any additional activities or reporting by winners after disbursement of the prize. There are no restrictions on how award funds can be spent.
Requirements for USAID Youth Well-Being Prize Competition
To enter the Youth Well-Being Prize Competition, please see the below eligibility requirements:
- You must be between the ages of 10 and 29 and/or be a youth-led organization*
- You have an idea to improve youth well-being in mental health, digital harm, safeguarding, gender-based violence, or climate change.
- No prior professional or academic experience in any particular field or topic is necessary.
- This is a global call for solutions
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*Countries subject to OFAC sanctions are ineligible to receive prize money.
Application Deadline
September 29, 2023
How to Apply
click HERE to apply
visit USAID website For more details
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