Up to $450,000 for Innovative Laundry Technologies – ADB Laundry Transformation Challenge

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) Laundry Transformation Challenge is looking for innovative technologies that can reduce the burden of laundry on women while cutting water consumption and pollution across Asia and the Pacific. Selected solutions will be piloted in Cambodia, Nepal and the Philippines.

Here’s what you can expect:

• Up to $450,000 in grant funding per pilot project

• 1–2 proposals expected to be selected

• Applicants must provide at least 10% co-financing, either cash or in-kind

• Funding to pilot and validate proven technologies in a new market or context

• Collaboration with ADB and relevant local and international stakeholders

• Connections with governments, financiers and other organisations across Asia-Pacific

• Opportunity to participate in impact evaluation and generate evidence for wider adoption

• Solutions can address women's unpaid workload, physical strain, excessive water consumption, greywater pollution, detergents and microfibres.

Who can apply?

• For-profit businesses

• Nonprofit organisations

• Civil society organisations

• Research institutions

• Legally autonomous government-owned enterprises

• Applicants must be legally incorporated or registered in an ADB member economy

• Applicants must own or have a valid licence to the intellectual property behind their technology

• Solutions should already be proven and ready to test in a new market

• Applicants need local partnerships and/or a demonstrated understanding of the intended operating environment.

Application deadline: 31 August 2026