Written by: EnCompass Staff

USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) is pleased to announce the Locally-Led Humanitarian Assistance Prize Competition 2024: Women-Led and Women’s Rights Organizations Making a Difference. All documents describing the competition and how to submit your information will be provided via this site October 8, 2024 in English, French, Spanish, Iraqi Arabic, and Ukrainian.  Submissions by competitors will be accepted in these same languages.

The Locally-Led Humanitarian Assistance Prize Competition is an opportunity to recognize transformative work and innovative approaches to humanitarian assistance by women-led organizations (WLOs) and women’s rights organizations (WROs). Recognizing work already completed or underway, this Competition will be open for organizations registered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Guatemala, Haiti, Iraq, Mali and Ukraine, or who can provide strong justification as to why they were not able to register in those countries.

This prize competition is funded by USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) and is being managed in partnership with the USAID Exploratory Programs and Innovation Competitions (EPIC) team and USAID’s Innovative Design, Execution, And Acceleration Support (IDEAS) mechanism.

BHA is proud to offer one grand prize award of $250,000 USD and five additional prizes worth $150,000 USD each.

Please check www.challenge.gov for more details on October 8, 2024.

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Fedecovera R.L.: GUATEMALA: During the training for the formation of Community Savings and Loan Groups, women in the community of Santa María Miralvalle Panzós establish their group regulations. These groups are grounded in local leadership of women who organize to promote the opportunity to save and access financial services at the community level. The USAID/BHA’s PROGRESANDO program supports the economic recovery of communities vulnerable to climate and economic crises in the Alta Verapaz region of Guatemala, with the objective of facilitating access to financial services at the community level, so that households increase their income and access to capital to develop business or productive activities.

Photo c/o: Fedecovera R.L., Anayanci Artola, February 2024