Deadline: April 11, 2025
Applications are open for the Resilience Innovation through Scaling Entrepreneurship (RISE) Urban Challenge 2025. The Challenge aims to convert innovative urban ideas that are meeting resilience needs in informality contexts and scale them to sustainable ideas. The RISE Urban Challenge provides customised support to maximise each initiative’s potential for impact and aligns potential funders to these initiatives and drive attention to the urgent need for urban systems transformation.
They are looking for innovative solutions addressing urban resilience challenges in informality contexts – a few examples include but are not limited to climate risk, resilience retrofit, water security, urban migration and displacement. For this round of the RISE Urban Challenge, they encourage and welcome solutions that prioritise the resilience of women and youth.
Benefits
- Selected projects will receive a tailored leadership and mentoring programme, communications support and be connected to investors.
- Subject matter experts will facilitate a leadership academy for the selected entrants. They will also be connected to potential investors and partners from GRP networks.
- Winners can be awarded prizes up to US$50,000, which will support their scaling and implementation over 12 months up to December 2026.
Eligibility
- Open to urban entrepreneurs, innovators, organisations or consortiums of organisations across the private sector (start-ups, SMEs), and civil society and grassroots organisations based in low- and middle-income countries.
- They encourage and welcome proposals from youth-led and women-led organisations.
Application
Apply by April 11, 2025. The first phase of screening will be done to identify finalists that will proceed to the Leadership Academy and mentoring. Shortlisted projects will be announced in June 2025.
For more information, visit RISE Urban Challenge.
