Amplify is an ongoing OpenIDEO program that focuses on improving the lives of the billion people living in extreme poverty around the world.
Current Amplify Challenge

Reproductive Health

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HOW DOES IT WORK?

Submit Your Idea

Give us a simple version of your idea.

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We'll give you tools to test your idea.

Win funding

The Amplify team will select winners

Implement idea

Winners get funding and 18 months of support

AM I ELIGIBLE?

Winners will have experience in our focus countries AND an idea that is a new approach to our challenge question.Get more detailed information about our challenges and criteria by downloading the list below.

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WHAT WILL I WIN?

At the end of each challenge a cohort of winners will receive:

18 months of technical support from IDEO.org

A share of $500,000

MEET PAST WINNERS

See Their Stories

Read the stories of past challenge winners, see some of the materials they submitted, and find out what they are doing with Amplify.

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WHAT EXPERIENCE DO I NEED?

At least one year working in your sector

At least one year of experience working in one or more of our 27 priority countries (see below)

Challenges must take place in one of the following countries:

  • AFGHANISTAN 
  • BANGLADESH 
  • BURMA 
  • DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 
  • ETHIOPIA 
  • GHANA
  • INDIA 
  • IRAQ 
  • JORDAN 
  • KENYA
  •  KYRGYZSTAN
  • LEBANON
  • LIBERIA 
  • MALAWI 
  • MOZAMBIQUE
  • NEPAL
  • NIGERIA
  • OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES 
  • PAKISTAN 
  • RWANDA 
  • SIERRA LEONE
  • SOMALIA
  • SOUTH AFRICA
  • SUDAN
  • SOUTH SUDAN
  • SYRIA
  • TAJIKISTAN 
  • TANZANIA
  • UGANDA 
  • YEMEN
  • ZAMBIA 
  • ZIMBABWE
CURRENT CHALLENGE 

How might we provide comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services to girls and women affected by conflict or disaster?

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