Deadline: October 6, 2024
Are you an entrepreneur with a solution focused on improving water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and/or sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in Nigeria or Kenya? Apply now for the Reckitt Access Accelerator 2024.
The program is delivered by Reckitt, the consumer health, hygiene and nutrition company, home to some of the world’s best known brands such as Dettol and Durex, in partnership with Yunus Social Business (YSB), an organization co-founded by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus with expertise in social enterprise accelerators.
They have created the Access Accelerator to harness the power of business to tackle the world’s greatest problems. Social enterprises combine business efficiency with community impact, and by accelerating their growth, they can enable access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) for more people, whilst also driving economic growth, creating jobs, and reducing poverty. By working with entrepreneurs that inherently understand the needs of their communities, they can reach people with solutions that work. This approach also provides a platform for Reckitt employees to directly engage and contribute to their purpose, making them catalysts for impact.
Benefits
All social businesses who complete the program will get access to:
- Tailored support & capacity-building: Receive mentorship and topic-based guidance from industry professionals, including Reckitt employees, who can offer learning across a wide range of subjects from digital marketing to impact measurement & management.
- Extensive business network: The Access Accelerator offers social entrepreneurs an open door to partners and supporters from Reckitt, Yunus Social Business, and the global WASH community who are fully committed to creating better access to WASH for the long-term.
- Access to seed funding: Financial support to help scale the growth of the participating social businesses beyond the accelerator
Eligibility
They are seeking social businesses based in Nigeria and Kenya that address the challenges of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) through:
Improving Infrastructure of Access
- Solutions to reduce loss in water distribution
- Solutions for better management and technical training of service providers and public agents responsible for water and sewage
- New and effective forms of financing for the sector (providers and consumers)
Innovation and decentralization
- New technologies that offer cleaner, regenerative, and cost-effective solutions for access to water
- New and cost-effective solutions for sanitation services
- New and easy-access solutions for better hygiene practices and concepts for their distribution
- Methodologies for efficient maintenance of water, sanitation and hygiene solutions
- New and cost-effective solutions to educate, raise awareness, prevent, and treat sexually transmitted diseases and promote sexual and reproductive health
Information, education & community management
- Methodologies and social interventions for information and education on water, sanitation, hygiene, and sexual and reproductive health
- Methodologies and social interventions for community management of existing and new water, sanitation, hygiene and sexual and reproductive health solutions.
They also encourage applications from social enterprises that offer WASH and SRH solutions for the following beneficiary groups:
- Women and girls
- Populations in remote and rural areas
- Populations in informal settlements
Application
For more information, visit Reckitt Access Accelerator.
