Tag: Afri-Plastics Challenge
Afri-Plastics Challenge awards £750,000 to innovations tackling behaviour change to plastic...
Fifteen (15) finalists of the third Afri-Plastic Challenge strand – ‘Promoting Change’ – have been named.
Finalists were drawn from Botswana, Burkina Faso,...
Rwanda’s Toto Safi and Nigeria’s Well of Science Among Finalists In...
Ten (10) finalists of the second Afri-Plastic Challenge strand – ‘Creating Solutions’ – have been named.
Reusable shopping bags and sterilised cloth diapers...
Nesta Challenges Announces Semi-finalists of Strand Three of the Afri-Plastics Challenge
The third and final strand, “Promoting Change” of the Afri-Plastics Challenge seeks to inspire behaviour change around plastic waste
Semi-finalists are using...
Africa’s rural communities will be the hardest hit by plastic pollution
Plastic waste in Africa is not just an urban issue, but also a rural one. Rural communities are almost always heavily dependent on natural...
Afri-Plastics Challenge reveals wealth of African innovation
From clean cooking gas to school desks made with recycled plastics: finalists named in £1 million prize to tackle plastic pollution in Africa
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Call for Applications: Afri-Plastics Challenge Strand 3 (£750 000 for 3...
Strand 3 of the Afri-plastics Challenge seeks the creation of campaigns, schemes, tools and other creative interventions that change the behaviour of communities...
Afri-Plastics Challenge announces 30 semi-finalists for the first strand Accelerating Growth
The Afri-Plastics Challenge is delivered by UK innovation and challenge prize expert Nesta Challenges and funded by the Government of Canada
30 semi-finalists...
Call for Applications: Afri-Plastics Challenge
Seeking innovators with early-stage solutions and ideas that can make a difference in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Afri-Plastics Challenge has now launched its second strand, Creating...
Call for Applications: Nesta Challenges Launches $14,500,000 Afri-Plastics Challenge
The Afri-Plastics Challenge seeks to find innovators with scalable and sustainable solutions to prevent plastic waste from entering the marine environment in sub-Saharan Africa.
Nesta...
