The Multi-City Challenge Africa aims to solve complex urban problems in collaboration with the people most affected by these problems: the residents of the city. The program offers training to public officials of the participating cities to support them in defining challenges and solving them in collaboration with their residents. It offers the community a space to participate in the design and formulation of public policies and programs at the local level, allowing them to provide innovative ideas to overcome these challenges.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Participation is divided in two steps:
- Step 1 (4th November – 13th December): Posting an idea to address one of the above three challenges in a city (maximum one idea per challenge per participant) to africa.multicitychallenge.org
- Step 2 (14th December – 23rd December): Evaluating the ideas that you consider most 1) impactful, and 2) practical.
ELIGIBILITY
What is A Good Idea:
- We seek innovative, low-cost ideas to solve these challenges that can be implemented by the cities in the short term. Solutions can include products, services, software, methods, models, public programme designs, and more.
Who Can Participate:
- Individuals or organisations interested in working to improve the urban context of the participating cities and, therefore, the quality of life of the residents, can participate regardless of their place of residence.
- However, we especially invite the residents of the five participating cities to submit ideas and to evaluate solutions proposed by others.
- Individuals who are relatives of the members of the city teams (see members in the profile of each city) or of the Multi City Challenge team are excluded from participating in the challenge.
DEADLINE: December 13, 2020
To apply and for more information visit here
