The RELX Environmental Challenge is open to individuals or organizations operating in the not-for-profit and for-profit sectors.Valerie Labi, one of the RELX Environmental Challenge judges, cites the example of Ghana, where she is the country director for iDE (International Development Enterprises). “Our response [to the pandemic] could not be the same as in London because only 20 percent of houses here have toilets,” she says. “So, this has a bigger impact on hygiene standards at a community level.”
Even before the onset of the pandemic, however, poor access to water and sanitation was a growing crisis, with around 800m people worldwide lacking basic access to clean water and water scarcity affecting more than 40 percent of the world’s population according to the World Health Organization. These figures are alarming. Yet global water stress is increasing, with population growth, socio-economic development, and changing consumption patterns driving up demand by about 1 percent a year since the 1980s.
WORTH
- There is a $50,000 prize for the first-place entry and a $25,000 prize for the second-place entry.
- The winners also receive free access for one year to Science Direct, our Scientific, Technical & Medical business database of full-text, scientific information, including almost 250,000 articles since 2000 in Environmental Sciences.
ELIGIBILITY
- Projects must have clear practical applicability, address identified needs, and advance related issues such as health, education, or human rights.
- Projects must advance sustainable access to safe water where it is presently at risk and/or access to improved sanitation, and include the following criteria:
- Be replicable, scalable, and sustainable. and set a benchmark for innovation
- Have practical applicability
- Address non-discrimination/equity of access
- Involve and impact a range of stakeholders
- Have local/community-level engagement
DEADLINE; June 18,2023
To apply and for more information visit here
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