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Read our latest challenge prize news, along with thought leadership articles and blogs from our team and partners.

A crowd of people in Mombasa on the beach collecting plastic in the beach.|MPP Incubator teams meet the US Ambassador to Kenya

Turning Tides: Driving Innovation Through the Mombasa Plastics Prize and Incubator

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Virtual report launch event: Fostering innovation in low and middle-income countries through challenge funds and challenge prizes

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Sustainable Cities Challenge: Our Journey in Varanasi so far

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Introducing the 10 Aqualunar finalist teams

canal in Venice.|Image of Nassin (Challenge Works programme manager) presenting in Venice.|Image of Nassin Watson

Sustainable Cities Challenge: Our journey in Venice so far

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Accelerating Sustainable Land Use Planning in African Cities

Eastern Market in Detroit|Toyoto Van|The entrance of Eastern District Market in the evening.|Fruit stall in Detriot outside Eastern Farmers Market|The entrance of Eastern District Market in the evening.|Image of a market selling fresh fruit in Detroit.|Image of a market selling fresh fruit in Detroit.

What we learned in designing the Detroit ‘Transforming Freight’ Challenge

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Mission-driven challenge prizes can accelerate Labour’s industrial strategy for Britain

An image of a busy crowd in Varanasi

Varanasi City Challenge: a new urban innovation challenge to help improve the movement of people