Caribbean Water Entrepreneurs Shark Tank Competition 2024: Win $4,000 Seed Funding

OPPORTUNITY DETAILS

Nonprofit organization

Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C)

Area

Maghreb

Host Country

Algeria

Deadline

04 Aug 2024

Opportunity type

Competitions

Opportunity funding

Not funding

Eligible Countries

This opportunity is destined for all countries

Eligible Region

All Regions

Caribbean Water Entrepreneurs Shark Tank Competition 2024: Win $4,000 Seed Funding

The 2024 Young Caribbean Water Entrepreneurs Shark Tank Competition seeks to provide a unique opportunity for young persons from the Caribbean, aged 18 to 34 years, to pitch innovative and impactful water-related project ideas to support better water resources management in their community, country or the Caribbean region.

Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) has recognised for many years the critical importance of creating avenues for young people to become involved in water governance and management ventures. Development challenges in the Caribbean will ultimately be inherited by the region’s youth. Young people are solution providers and have ideas and energy to act for sustainable development. GWP-C therefore sees the importance of empowering young people to be agents of change in contributing to and advancing Caribbean water security.

Through GWP-C’s work and interaction with its youth partners and young people within water and related sectors, it is evident that they often do not have access to funding or resources to easily advance their project ideas. Additionally, they do not always have easy access to technical support to turn their ideas into fully workable projects.

It is, therefore, with great pleasure that GWP-C announces the launch of its 2024 “Young Caribbean Water Entrepreneurs Shark Tank Competition.” This is the fourth time the competition is being held, the first being in 2019, the second in 2020 and the third in 2022.

Themes

Seed funding of will be awarded for the best project/idea under the following themes:

Water and Agriculture
Water and Climate
Water and Health
Water and Energy
Water and Tourism

Eligibility for 2024 Young Caribbean Water Entrepreneurs Shark Tank Competition

You must be a Caribbean national residing in the Caribbean region,
Be aged between 18 – 34 years
Have an innovative project/idea under any of the above themes.

Assessment Criteria

Each of the selected finalists will receive feedback, critiques and advice on their proposals to prepare to pitch their water-related project/idea to the sharks in the competition’s finals.

Proposals will be assessed based on various areas (but not limited to):

Innovation
Water Resources Management Relevance
Practicality of Implementation
Projected Impact
Financial Feasibility
Project Sustainability
Stakeholder Engagement and Partnerships
Business/Industry Analysis
Market Research
Competitive Analysis
Gender Mainstreaming.

Application of 2024 Young Caribbean Water Entrepreneurs Shark Tank Competition

Entrants must complete and submit the competition’s online project proposal template here by August 4^th, 2024

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