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Deadline: August 10, 2025
The Reckitt Catalyst 2025 Call for Health and WASH Innovators is now open, inviting innovative startups and organizations working to improve health, hygiene, and sanitation (WASH) outcomes across underserved communities. Powered by Reckitt and managed in partnership with Yunus Social Business, this initiative seeks scalable solutions that tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges in public health, clean water access, sanitation, and hygiene.
This impact-focused innovation challenge offers selected social entrepreneurs the opportunity to receive financial support, expert mentorship, and potential partnerships with Reckitt to scale their solutions.
Benefits
- A legally registered, revenue-generating organisation (for-profit) headquartered and operating in at least one of the eight focus markets. (i.e. Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Mexico, and Brazil.)
- Organisations incorporated in other jurisdictions (e.g. Delaware) are eligible as long as their primary headquarters and core operations are based in one of the focus markets.
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Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible, applicants must:
- Be impact-driven organizations or startups (for-profit or non-profit)
- Operate in sectors aligned with WASH (Water, Sanitation & Hygiene) or healthcare innovation
- Have an existing solution with proven results or a working prototype
- Be based in, or working with, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
- Demonstrate potential for scalability and measurable social impact
Innovators from Africa, Asia, and Latin America are strongly encouraged to apply.
Application Timeline
Application Review (July –August 2025):All complete applications will be reviewed, and around 40 semi-finalists will be shortlisted based on eligibility and alignment with the programme goals.
Video Interviews (August –September 2025):Shortlisted ventures will be invited for virtual interviews with the selection team. Following these, approximately 30 finalists will be chosen to advance to the final stage.
Final Jury (September 2025):Finalists will be evaluated by a panel of judges from Reckitt, YSI, and HIEx. Up to 20 winning ventures will be selected to join the Reckitt Catalyst Accelerator.
Accelerator Programme (October 2025 –April 2026):The selected ventures will participate in a 6-month virtual accelerator, including mentorship, capacity building, investor engagement, and potential access to flexible financing
