Reckitt believes social entrepreneurship has a powerful role to play in solving the world’s greatest challenges. With a portfolio of over 60 entrepreneurs, Reckitt acts as a catalyst working with expert partners like Yunus Social Business and Health Innovation Exchange to scale pioneering solutions and build sustainable business models.
Reckitt is proud to have supported the Lead2030 SDG6 challenge since 2019, working with 11 WASH entrepreneurs to date. We want to build on this success in 2025, by supporting innovations that create measurable impact by enabling access to clean water, sanitation or hygiene, and are particularly interested in innovations with a focus on children or women/girls.
The focus of this challenge is not limited to providing equitable access to basic water, sanitation and hygiene facilities but to also creating a sustainable ecosystem that ensures, year after year, continuous development and increasing awareness.
Whilst Reckitt are interested to receive applications that target at a wide range of areas within WASH, there is a particular interest in hearing about innovations that do either of the following:
- Make innovative use of digital technology and AI to reach more people and enable access to water, sanitation, and hygiene on a wide scale
- Promote good hand hygiene practices and reduce water-borne diseases
- Help us tackle WASH related challenges in our value chain supporting Reckitt's Water positive agenda e.g. water recycling and reuse at factories
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Lead2030 Challenge for SDG 6
Aim and Benefits of Lead2030 Challenge for SDG 6
The winning solution will receive:
- Sponsorship to participate in the One Young World Summit 2025.
- A US$50,000 grant from Reckitt.
- 12 months of mentorship from a team of Reckitt professionals. The mentorship team will work to accelerate your solution based on the needs of your initiative or organisation.
Requirements for Lead2030 Challenge for SDG 6 Qualification
- Aligned: Evidently aligned with the SDG6 indicators.
- Youth-led: Founded by a person aged 18 – 30.
- Focused: Clear implementation and scale-up plan, identified key stakeholders and beneficiaries, and proposed outcomes that are reasonable and well thought out.
- Proven: Solution is readily available, being piloted, implemented, or scaled.
- Impactful: Solutions must have a positive social impact, for example, promoting health, generating educational outcomes, or employment opportunities.
- Measurable: Solution’s impact in society must be adequately measured.
- Financially viable: Must be able to achieve efficiency and to survive independently through the resources they generate and/or the investments and donations they attract.
- Scalable: Potential to grow impact after expanding in scope or size and/or into other regions.
Interview date, Process and Venue for Lead2030 Challenge for SDG 6
Timeline
- 17 April 2025: Applications open.
- 26 May 2025: Applications close.
- 28 May 2025: Shortlisted candidates confirmed and invited to submit Round 2 application.
- 6 June: Round 2 application deadline.
- 16 - 19 June: Finalist Interviews.
- 26 June: Challenge Winner confirmed.
Application Deadline
May 26, 2025How to Apply
Interested and qualified? Go to
One Young World on www.oneyoungworld.com to apply
For more details, visit One Young World challenge webpage
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