Innovation prizes: incentivizing innovative solutions to water and sanitation challenges through prizes

Autor:	Gabrielle Minkley, Veronica Di Bella
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	Economic growth Sanitation 0208 environmental biotechnology Programme implementation Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology Private sector 020801 environmental engineering Incentive Local government Economics Action research Marketing Water Science and Technology
Zdroj:	Waterlines. 36:256-263
ISSN:	1756-3488 0262-8104
DOI:	10.3362/1756-3488.17-00010
Popis:	This article presents the emerging learning from the action research Ideas to Impact programme, which is testing innovation prizes as a mechanism for incentivizing solutions and addressing long-standing challenges in the development sector. Innovation prizes have long been used to reward and incentivize innovation in the private sector, but are relatively new in their application to long-standing developmental problems. We explore the wider context of innovation prizes and their applicability within a development context. It is too early in the programme implementation to state conclusively that innovation prizes are an effective tool to solve development challenges, but here we offer our early lessons and practical experience from designing and implementing one of our water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) innovation prizes. This article highlights the early learnings from the Sanitation Challenge for Ghana, which incentivizes local government to rapidly improve and deliver urban sanitation in Ghana.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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