TCI Awards
The Challenge Initiative Awards Overview
1. 2025 Best Poster – Ouagadougou Partnership Annual Meeting
In December 2025, TCI won the Best Poster award at the Ouagadougou Partnership Annual Meeting in Lomé, Togo. The poster explored how TCI supports municipalities to fund family planning programs in OP countries.
2. 2025 Anthem Awards – Silver Winner
In November 2025, TCI’s digital learning platform TCI University (TCI-U) was honored as Silver Winner in the Health – Product, Innovation, or Service: Education or Literacy Platform category of the Anthem Awards. These awards are administered by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences and presented by The Webby Awards, recognizing purpose-driven work worldwide.
3. 2025 Digital Public Health Award (Innovation Prize for Best Scale-Up)
In July 2025, the TCI-U mobile app received the Innovation Prize – Best Scale-Up at the International Digital Public Health (DPH) Conference in Madeira, Portugal. This accolade reflects an independent selection by a global judging panel of leading digital-health practitioners and recognizes TCI-U’s successful scale across 13 countries.
4. 2024 Outstanding Research Poster – International Conference of Urban Health Conference
TCI won Best Poster for Outstanding Research at the International Conference of Urban Health (ICUH) conference in Marrakesh, Morocco (Nov. 18-21, 2024). The winning poster – Empowering Urban Local Governments for Sustainable Family Planning Programs: TCIs Approach to Graduation and Self-Reliance in Health Systems – focused on continued success in TCI’s graduated cities.
5. 2024 P3 Impact Award
At the 2024 Concordia Annual Summit in New York City, TCI was named winner of the P3 Impact Award – an award established by the U.S. Department of State Office of Global Partnerships, the Darden School of Business – University of Virginia, and Concordia. The award honors exemplary public-private partnerships that deliver innovative solutions to global challenges, and a jury of external experts selected TCI from a competitive pool of nominations.
6. 2021 Curve Award
In October 2021, TCI’s Nigeria team received a Curve Award in Nigeria for innovative use of its RAISE tool for responsive feedback in local health governance. The Curve Award is judged by external panels (including representatives from Unilever, Harvard University and the Gates Foundation) and recognizes community-driven innovation in feedback mechanisms.
Why These Awards Matter
Each of these awards is the result of independent third-party review – not internal nominations or self-selected achievements. The selection involves expert juries, competitive entry processes and peer-benchmarked criteria. Together, they affirm TCI’s model of scaling high-impact reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) interventions through local government leadership, digital learning and public-private collaboration.
These recognitions underscore TCI’s credibility and impact across multiple dimensions: digital innovation and scale; partnership excellence; and local responsiveness and governance innovation.
