Urban areas in India and South Asia face an increasingly ominous threat – climate change. Promoting climate resilience by developing innovative solutions to address climate change, by focusing on mitigation, adaptation, and sustainability, is the need of the hour.
WASH Innovation Hub (WIH) at ASCI and GIZ, India, are pleased to announce an innovation challenge to promote climate-resilient water and sanitation service delivery in cities. The challenge is open to innovative technologies, business models, and financing arrangements in mitigation and adaptation. The best entries will receive funding, access to work with cities, and network with funders and mentors.
WASH Innovation Hub (WIH) is a platform for innovative WASH solutions and building the capacities of municipalities and other stakeholders for implementing and sustaining identified solutions. The Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) in partnership with GoTS, has established the WASH Innovation Hub (WIH) as an initiative to promote innovations that can support cities in developing sustainable service delivery systems and is committed to achieving SDG 5, 6 & 11.
The startups providing innovative technological and business
solutions in mitigation and adaptation are eligible to participate.
Eligible categories for participation:-
MSMEs and Startups registered in India can apply for the innovation challenge in any of the themes outlined above. They can apply for more than one category.
All entities should be recognised as startups by the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) or have an MSME Registration Certificate.
Take a tour of these steps to know how to participate in this challenge.
The applications for the innovation challenge will remain open from 11:00 hours on 9 November 2023 to 17:30 hours on 15 January 2024.
Applications for the WASH Innovations Challenge will be available at click here
The participants can register for the challenge using any valid email. Once the applicant makes a registration request, an email will be sent to the registered email acknowledging their registration and providing a password.
The registered applicant has to upload all the information by choosing to sign in.
WIH will follow a two-step screening process to evaluate and shortlist the submitted proposals. The Screening Committee will do initial shortlisting, and an Expert Committee will scrutinise shortlisted submissions for final selection. The Committee shall consider the following broad parameters for the evaluation of the proposals:
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Established in 1956 at the initiative of the government and the corporate sector, the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), Hyderabad, has pioneered post-experience management education in India. ASCI equips corporate managers, administrators, entrepreneurs and academicians with the skills to synthesize managerial theory and practice; and respond to the ever-increasing complexity of managerial issues confronting government, industrial enterprises and non- government organizations.
