Phase 1: Design
Accessibility
- How accessible is the innovation across social, cultural, and environmental factors that influence access to treatment and care?
- How accessible is the innovation to the population of focus (i.e. healthcare providers, pregnant women, new moms, and/or their families)?
- If not targeted to rural areas, how applicable/useable is the innovation in rural areas?
Sustainability
- How encouraging is the proposed innovation to the population of focus (i.e. healthcare providers, pregnant women, new moms, and/or their families) to use it often and/or for long periods of time? How well does it fit into daily life?
Impact
- How well does the applicant present a theory of change or explanation of how the proposed innovation would result in the intended impact?
Innovation
- How compelling is the case for innovation in this idea? How likely is the proposed solution to succeed when other ideas to address similar problems have not?
Project Potential in Remaining Phases
- How well-described is the plan to develop the innovation and demonstrate that it works for a wide audience and how achievable is it given prize money and other available resources? How feasible is it?
Phase 2: Development and Small-Scale Testing
Accessibility
- How well did the development and small-scale testing demonstrate that the innovation has the potential to be accessible to the population of focus and across social, cultural, and environmental factors that influence access to treatment and care?
Sustainability
- How compelling was the innovation to the population of focus to encourage them to use it often? How much did the population of focus want to engage with it on an ongoing basis?
Impact
- How well did the innovation positively impact outcomes for the population of focus? How significant were the data?
- Based on the development and small scale testing completed in Phase 2, how promising are the results?
- How adaptive is the innovation to unexpected results and/or user feedback and experiences?
- How well- described is the revised plan for Phase 3 and how achievable is it given prize money and other available resources?
Innovation
- How compelling is the case for innovation in this idea? How likely is the proposed solution to succeed when other ideas to address similar problems have not?
Phase 3: Scaling
Accessibility
- How well has the solver demonstrated the innovation will be accessible across social, cultural, and environmental factors that influence access to treatment and care?
- How well has the solver demonstrated the innovation could be affordably deployed for, and desired by, the population of focus?
- How well was the solver able to adapt the innovation based on user feedback?
- Overall, how promising is the innovation in terms of potential for buy-in from the population of focus?
Sustainability
- Based on development and testing in the challenge, how well has the solver demonstrated the viability of the innovation for solving the targeted problem?
Impact
- How much potential does the innovation have for having a large-scale impact?
- Overall, how promising is the innovation in terms of its ability to reach the population of focus (i.e. healthcare providers, pregnant women, new moms, and/or their families)?
- How well has the team described next steps beyond the Challenge?
Innovation
- How well has the work done in Phase 1 and Phase 2 demonstrated the solver’s ability to succeed at creating a viable, sustainable innovation, where others have not?
