Pitch for Healthcare

The Challenge

Bangladesh is still far from its goal of universal health coverage - providing all citizens and communities with the health services they need, at a price they can afford. Our healthcare system is also highly decentralized, run by private companies, NGOs as well as the government, with proper healthcare not available to free or low cost facilities. Awareness of diseases and a delay in treating them - often due to high expenses - results in more issues, often costing livelihoods of many.

This inequality in access to healthcare, coupled with awareness of diseases and the stigma involved in discussing and addressing menstrual and mental health in many communities, are what we want to address in this challenge.

The Problems we are trying to Solve

Changemakers are encouraged to submit solutions that attempt to help your community access valuable and inclusive education in any level. The solutions can include:

Access to proper Healthcare - Your Pitch can help groups of people gain access to proper healthcare by introducing new technology, creating new public systems such as transport, or funding for recovery.

Awareness Campaigns - How can your solution help spread awareness of particular diseases or healthcare issues that affect your community?

Tackling specific Diseases or Illnesses - If your community is facing issues unique to the area, including awareness, lack of treatment, access to transport or medical facilities.

Nutrition-based Initiatives - Is there a need of nutritional education - such as for children or mothers - in your area? What can be done about it?

Healthcare for Children and Women - Does your solution tackle children, women or menstrual health? Let us know what you want to do.

Mental Health - As one of the most mistreated or ignored healthcare sectors, awareness and access to treatment of mental health issues is unavailable in most areas. What does your solution do to help reduce this?

Judging Criteria

Judges evaluate submitted solutions using the following criteria. Judges assign a numerical score for each criterion from which an average score for each solution is calculated. Each criterion has equal weight. After solutions have been evaluated, a ranked-list of solutions is then created for further consideration by the Judges. Judges deliberate twice: once to select finalists and again to select winners.

Alignment: The solution correctly addresses the Challenge in question.

Potential for Impact: The planned solution implementation has the potential to impact the intended population.

Feasibility: The team has a realistic, practical plan for implementing the solution, and it is feasible in the given context.

Innovative Approach: The solution includes a unique approach to a social issue, new technology, a new business model, or a new process for solving the Challenge.

Understanding uniqueness of a Community or Group: The solution is designed with and for underserved communities, and the solution team are working closely with the community and embodies and addresses key social issues particular to that community through their solution.

Who can submit a Pitch or solution?

Any NGOs, Volunteer or youth organizations and non-profits, both registered and unregistered, operating in Bangladesh can submit a Pitch. You can be an individual, a team, or an organization. You can be an applicant from previous years or already part of our community. It is required that you have at least 6 months of on-field experience on any activity for your organization from any part of Bangladesh to ensure that you can carry out the solution if they get support.

Current and alumni of Kindness Campaign and Pitch for Bangladesh are allowed to apply to a new Challenge; however, the solution must be new and not be the same solution that was previously selected and supported by Pitch for Bangladesh. If you have any questions on this policy, please reach out to your contact at CSR Window.

What type of solutions will Solve accept?

We seek innovative, human-centered solutions to our Pitch Challenges. Our definition of “human-centered” is broad: in addition to understanding what the solution is, we are looking for teams with a deep understanding of the problems of any particular social issue they are trying to solve.

Solution applications must be written in English.

What will I get if my solution is selected?

If you are selected as a Solver, you’ll be immediately granted access to our month-long Learning Program, which will feature experts from all fields in Bangladesh teaching you how to develop your organization and idea.

You can see past sessions and trainers of our Learning Program here.

Your pitch will be presented to Corporate partners of the platform for funding and partnership. If your goals align with the CSR teams of these corporates, you will be guided through a partnership process. Through these connections, you’ll get funded, build the partnerships needed to accelerate your work, validate your impact and business model, and scale your solution.