Mombasa Plastics Prize

Mombasa Plastics Prize

Website: mombasaplasticsprize.challenges.org

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Design Challange

To encourage innovation and awareness amongst aspiring entrepreneurs and leaders (ages 18-25) in Mombasa County through the Mombasa Plastics Prize challenge by Challenge Works, by inspiring the development of solutions that tackle the problem of plastic waste mismanagement within informal settlements.

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What we did

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  • Contextual research with youths and local stakeholders to inform the design and validation of the challenge prize

  • Program design of a 5-month innovation challenge prize

  • Innovation support from problem-framing to validating viable business ideas through financial and non-financial capacities

  • Program design of a 6-month incubator program to transform 9 high potential innovations into viable businesses.

  •  Designing impact evaluation strategies and tools

     

Outputs

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14 viable business ideas across innovation, behavioural change and recycling themes

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9 businesses successfully transformed into viable businesses