World Solve

Develop enforceable, economically viable protections for construction workers, delivery workers, street vendors, farm laborers, and factory workers exposed to dangerous heat.

Create affordable slope monitoring, drainage, building standards, relocation alternatives, and community warning systems for rapidly growing hillside settlements.

Design safe, legal, affordable electricity systems where overloaded wiring, theft, insecure tenure, and weak utility trust create chronic fire and outage risks.

Create decentralized treatment, safer chemistry, water reuse, and compliance models for dense clusters of small dyeing units.

Design toilets, containment, emptying, transport, and treatment systems that function during floods without exposing residents or sanitation workers to waste.

Develop equitable restoration plans that improve water quality without simply displacing low-income residents or relocating pollution downstream.

Develop mapping, treatment, and enforcement strategies where homes, workshops, tanneries, and small factories discharge into the same unmanaged drainage networks.

Map and mitigate heavy metals, flame retardants, acids, and other pollutants leaching from informal electronics-processing sites into drinking-water aquifers.

Develop surveillance and quarantine systems that work across informal nurseries, border markets, and online plant commerce where official controls are weak.

Develop economically viable integrated pest-management alternatives for small growers who rely on highly toxic chemicals because safer options are inaccessible or ineffective.

Develop accessible monitoring for silica dust exposure and early lung damage among artisanal miners and construction workers who lack occupational health coverage.

Develop surveillance and affordable safety protocols for dialysis delivered in fragmented private and informal systems, where contamination and equipment reuse may go undocumented.

Create field-deployable chemical verification methods that pharmacies, regulators, and patients can use to distinguish authentic cancer drugs from counterfeit or degraded products.

Despite recognition of its importance, reliable methods for passive cooling and ventilation systems for informal settlement housing are still lacking. Progress is hindered by incomplete mechanistic knowledge, high capital and operational barriers, and the absence of deployment models suited to the contexts of greatest need.

Informal-sector workers in Yemen are largely excluded from formal credit because they lack the documented income history traditional lenders require, forcing reliance on high-interest informal lenders.

Refugees hosted near Pakistan frequently possess professional qualifications that are not recognized locally, forcing skilled individuals into informal or unrelated low-wage work.

Electronic waste volumes in Colombia are rising rapidly, but formal recycling capacity remains minimal, pushing most e-waste into informal, hazardous dismantling operations.

Small-scale fishers in Bangladesh often operate without formal recognition or access to credit, insurance, or market infrastructure, leaving them economically vulnerable and undercounted in fisheries policy.

Gig economy workers in Australia lose access to healthcare and retirement benefits between short-term engagements because current labor protections are tied to single-employer relationships.

Despite recognition of its importance, reliable methods for affordable methods for continuous monitoring of air and water quality in informal settlements are still lacking. Progress is hindered by incomplete mechanistic knowledge, high capital and operational barriers, and the absence of deployment models suited to the contexts of greatest need.