2023 USAID Youth Well-Being Prize Competition (Win Up to $50,000)
Competition Overview: The USAID Youth Well-Being Prize Competition is looking for young change makers, between the ages of 10 and 29, with innovative solutions to make educational materials and important information easily accessible to young people.
These solutions should build inclusive knowledge, meaning that young people, no matter their background, culture, or identity, would have equal access to education and information that’s relevant to and respectful of their experiences.
By increasing inclusive knowledge and access, young people can protect their well-being, stay safe, and make a positive impact on their own lives and communities.
USAID is seeking solutions created by young people, for young people, and these solutions should prioritize inclusivity and accessibility, and recognize the diverse identities of young people in the areas of mental health, digital harm, safeguarding, gender-based violence, and climate change:
Mental Health: Ideas that focus on the mental health of children and youth. Competitors interested in mental health, personalized care, psychotherapy, or any interventions that help reduce stress and improve the lives of young people should apply here.
The innovation should aim to enhance individual, interpersonal, and/or overall well-being for youth.
Digital Harm: Innovations in this category should relate to use of digital platforms (such as social media) and safety. Competitors interested in reducing digital harm as caused by online platforms and/or digital use, including digital harm done offline for children and youth should apply in this category.
Digital harm can include any of the following: hate speech, cyberbullying, doxing, deep fakes of people without their consent, nonconsensual explicit content, misinformation and disinformation, etc.
Safeguarding: Innovations in this category should relate to prevention and/or response to child and/or youth abuse, exploitation, neglect, and violence including prevention and/or response to sexual exploitation, abuse, and violence.
Competitors interested in protection from and elimination of all forms of violence against children and young people should apply in this category.
Gender-Based Violence: Innovations in this category should work against harmful actions or threats that target individuals or groups based on their actual or perceived sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sex characteristics, sexual orientation, or how they challenge traditional ideas of masculinity and femininity.
Competitors interested in gender equality, equity, and preventing, mitigating, and responding to gender-based violence should apply in this category.
Climate Change: Innovations in this category should relate to building climate awareness, improving climate education, promoting sustainable lifestyles, conserving nature, supporting renewable energy, adopting environmentally friendly practices, and/or implementing climate adaptation and mitigation projects.
Those interested in youth-led and children-led climate mitigation efforts and reduction in high levels of climate anxiety and grief among children and young people should apply in this category.
About United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance.
With a budget of over $27 billion, USAID is one of the largest official aid agencies in the world and accounts for more than half of all U.S. foreign assistance—the highest in the world in absolute dollar terms.
Benefits of USAID Youth Well-Being Prize Competition
- 1st Place: $5,000
- 2nd Place: $3,000
- 3rd Place: $2,000
- 1st Place: $5,000
- 2nd Place: $3,000
- 3rd Place: $2,000
- 1st Place: $5,000
- 2nd Place: $3,000
- 3rd Place: $2,000
- 1st Place: $5,000
- 2nd Place: $3,000
- 3rd Place: $2,000
- 1st Place: $5,000
- 2nd Place: $3,000
- 3rd Place: $2,000
Prize Disbursement
Prizes will not be awarded to an organization from, or with a principal place of business in, a country subject to trade and economic sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the Department of Treasury, or to any individual or entity subject to targeted trade and economic sanctions administered by OFAC. Winners will be checked against OFAC sanctions lists before the prize award is disbursed.
Requirements for USAID Youth Well-Being Prize Competition
- You must be between the ages of 10 and 29 and/or be a youth-led organization*
- You have an idea to improve youth well-being in mental health, digital harm, safeguarding, gender-based violence, or climate change.
- This is a global call for solutions*
- No prior professional or academic experience in any particular field or topic is necessary.
How to Apply
Application Deadline for 2023 USAID Youth Well-Being Prize Competition
visit USAID website For more details.
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