Africa
Win Up to $2,500 for Regional Integration Reporting: SADC Media Awards 2026 Guide for Print, Radio, TV, and Photojournalism
There are awards that feel like polite applause. And then there are awards that put your work in the middle of a regional conversation that actually matters.
Win Up to $20,000 for Your Nigerian Agritech Startup: AYuTe Africa Challenge Nigeria 2026 Prize Competition Guide ($40,000 Total)
If you build agritech in Nigeria, you already know the truth nobody puts on conference banners: farmers do not need another shiny app that looks good in a demo and disappears at planting season.
Win Up to $5,000 for Student Health Design Projects: Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition 2026
If you and your classmates have sketched a user-friendly ventilator adapter on a napkin, prototyped a community health app in a dorm room, or designed a low-cost clinic workflow that actually makes sense, this competition is made for you.
Win Up to $5,000 for Your STEM Degree in the US or Canada: MPOWER Financing Women in STEM Scholarship 2026
There are scholarships that feel like a polite golf clap—nice, but not life-changing. Then there are scholarships that show up like a friend with groceries when your bank account is doing that tragic little “insufficient funds” dance.
Win Up to $50,000 for Girls and Women Education Work: UNESCO Prize for Girls and Women Education 2026 Guide
If you’ve ever built a program that gets girls into classrooms, keeps them there, and helps them actually *thrive*—you already know the work is equal parts grit, patience, and inventive problem-solving.
Win Up to $500 in a Global Photography Award for Rangelands and Pastoralists: GLF Photography Awards 2026 Guide
Some photography contests want pretty pictures. This one wants truth. The kind you can feel in your ribs when you look at a photograph and suddenly realize: *Oh. People live like this. Land works like this. This matters.*
Win Up to £50,000 for Climate Resilience Research: Mastercard Foundation and University of Cambridge CReSus Fund 2025
If you care about climate resilience in Africa and have a collaborator at the University of Cambridge, this call is built for you.
Win Up to €15,000 for Design That Advances Gender Equality: Design Equality 2025 International Competition Guide
Design meets purpose. If you create products, services, policies or digital tools that improve the lives of women and girls, the Design Equality 2025 International Competition is a stage and a pot of prize money waiting for work with real impact.
Win Up to 30000 USD for Youth-Led Climate Action: Youth4Climate Call for Solutions 2026 Grant Guide
If you have a climate project that’s more than a passionate idea scribbled in a notebook—something you can actually run, test, and improve in the real world—this is one of the better funding doors you’ll find with your name on it.
Win Up to 750 EUR for Micro-Fiction About Africa: Casa Africa Purorrelato Micro-story Competition 2026 Guide
If you’ve ever thought, “I could tell a whole story in a single breath,” Casa África is basically sliding a microphone across the table and saying: prove it.