AstraZeneca Lead2030 Challenge for SDG 3 (winners receive US $50,000+fully-funded Scholarship to attend the 2024 One Young World Summit in Montreal, Canada): APPLY NOW!

AstraZeneca Lead2030 Challenge for SDG 3

How can we solve health and environmental equity? 

Through the Lead2030 Challenge for SDG 3, we will be granting US $50,000 to a small, innovative, youth-led non-profit organisation which aims to solve the climate and health challenges facing young people today. In addition to the grant, the winner will also receive a fully-funded Scholarship to attend the 2024 One Young World Summit in Montreal, Canada, as well as mentorship by AstraZeneca and inclusion in a development programme through the YHP’s Impact Fellowship.

What we are looking for: 

• A young leader (aged 18-30) working for, or leading, a non-profit organisation with drive and determination to make the world a healthier place for people.*
• Innovative solutions that have the potential to be scaled-up.
• Non-profit projects that aim to close the equity gap by helping marginalised young people access greater healthcare, while incorporating elements of environmental sustainability and/or stewardship.
• A locally-led, rights-based approach, which focuses on vulnerable and marginalised youth.
• Focus on local and/or national advocacy approaches that aim to engage with decision-makers and policy-makers to influence positive legislative change.

We invite a wide range of ideas, which could range from developing youth climate advocacy capability and health awareness, promoting carbon-friendly solutions to address health equity issues, support climate-health entrepreneurship, targeting food waste and enabling healthy diets, and beyond.

*Most delegates are between the ages of 18 and 30. The selection committee will consider applications from those who are older than 30, pending demonstration of appropriate personal impact, initiative, and willingness to engage. 

Lead2030 Challenge for SDG 3 Application Deadline: 21 March 2024

Lead2030 Challenge for SDG 3 Criteria

Aligned: Evidently aligned with the SDG3 challenge. See ‘About’.

Youth-led: Founded by a person aged 18 – 30.*

Focused: Well-structured time horizon, 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, generating educational outcomes, employment opportunities, or developing skills.

Measurable: Solution’s impact on society must be adequately measured and/or measurable.

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.

Lead2030 Challenge for SDG 3 Applicants must be able to propose a 6-12 month project that: 

• Identifies and explains barriers young people (aged 10-24) experience in relation to accessing healthcare in your community. This could include, but is not limited to, health literacy and awareness, access, experience, or outcomes of healthcare.
• Proposes an innovative solution to this problem and clearly demonstrates how it will positively impact equitable access to healthcare for young people (aged 10-24). 
• Is designed and delivered in an inclusive and non-discriminatory way, working with marginalised, under-served or vulnerable young people. 
• Considers and prevents any detrimental environmental impact that could arise. Projects that have a positive impact on the environment will be prioritised. 
• Explains how it will be delivered in a way that will produce a benefit to the target beneficiary group. 
• Is measured and can demonstrate impact. Organisations must provide an end-of-year and end-of-grant report including, but not limited to, the total number of young people reached directly, change/improvement over time, lessons learned and impact. 
• Begins after September 2024 and will be completed by November 2025.  

Projects that do any of the following are not eligible for Lead2030 Challenge for SDG 3 funding: 

• Discriminate or primarily promote political or religious viewpoints to their beneficiaries. 
• Use the funds to make grants or financial donations to other organisations or individuals. 
• Provide medical training to healthcare professionals or other members of the community. 
• Be primarily a medical course/s. 
• Provide bursaries, tuition, scholarships or feeds for an existing course. 
• Provide treatment, promote medicines, provide medical advice or pay for medicines. 
• Benefit AstraZeneca’s commercial business. 
• Last more than 12 months. 
• Have already taken place or are planned to start before September 2024. 
• Be funded more than 50% by another source. 

If, after selection, the screening and verification process determines that the organisations do not meet the eligibility requirements as outlined, they will be unable to receive the Grant, and the individual’s participation in the YHP Impact Fellowship and One Young World Summit may be withdrawn. 

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