Urban innovation challenge announces 5 winners
The Urban Innovation Challenge exists for one reason: to find ways to improve life in Bangladesh’s cities.
To do that, we want to find the people living in those cities who want to step up, and give them what they need to get the job done.
We want to choose a small team of early-stage organisations (for-profit or non-profit) who have solutions with potential to benefit over 1 million people living in any one of Bangladesh’s cities. You could be a small NGO, start-up or just a group of university students who have a great idea that you want to make a reality.
Challenge 1
Challenge 2
Challenge 3
What you get
Develop and test your solution with the world’s biggest development organisation
Access to BRAC facilities and support from BRAC staff in your city
In-person guidance from leading local entrepreneurs
A 5-day, urban bootcamp to understand the problem on the ground
Virtual sessions with international experts on design, prototyping and business development
Up to BDT 500,000 per team in seed funding from BRAC and linkage to investors
14 December 2016
Deadline to submit application
14 January 2017
BRAC experts shortlist 30 applications
11 March 2017
Deadline to submit full proposal
7 May 2017
Winners announced
May-Oct 2017
Idea incubation and skill development
Oct 2017
Present your idea to investors
