Briefs
Real briefs. Real problems. Real work.
Organisations and individuals bring real problems to ATTP and ask for young African perspectives. Pick a brief, do the work, document your thinking, and submit. No experience required. Open to ages 13 to 35.
Write the Business Case for a Women-Only ROSCA Platform in Lagos Markets
Produce a viable business model and pitch deck for a tech-enabled rotating savings platform built specifically for market women in Lagos. Ajo and esusu already work. The question is whether a formal platform can improve on them without breaking what makes them trusted.
Design a Digital Wallet Onboarding Flow for First-Time Users in Rural Osun State
Create a user experience prototype for onboarding low-literacy, first-time mobile wallet users in rural Osun State, where smartphone penetration is low and trust in digital finance is fragile. Most existing fintech products are designed for Lagos, and it shows.
Design an Insurance Literacy Campaign for First-Time Earners in Northern Nigeria
Create a behaviour-change communication campaign to introduce basic insurance concepts to young first-time earners in Kano, Kaduna, or Sokoto. Low insurance penetration in northern Nigeria is partly a product design problem, but it is also a deep literacy and trust problem that no product can solve alone.
Pitch a Parametric Flood Insurance Scheme for Port Harcourt Residents
Design a parametric flood insurance product for low-income neighbourhoods in Port Harcourt, where annual flooding causes recurring losses that residents have no protection against. Parametric insurance pays out automatically when a trigger is met, removing the friction of claims assessment in hard-to-reach areas.
Build a Micro-Health Insurance Product for Lagos Market Traders
Design a health insurance product tailored to the cash-flow realities of traders in Lagos markets like Balogun and Alaba. Most informal traders face catastrophic out-of-pocket costs from a single illness, and existing HMO products simply do not fit how they earn or spend.
Build a Credit Scoring Model for Keke Riders in Kano
Design a data-driven credit scoring framework for commercial tricycle operators in Kano who have no formal credit history. Banks turn them away, but these riders have predictable cash flows and real assets.
Design a Solar-Powered Water Kiosk Model for Underserved Peri-Urban Communities in Northern Nigeria
Participants will produce a complete design and operating model for a solar-powered water dispensing kiosk that can serve a peri-urban community of 500 to 1,000 households in northern Nigeria, including technical specifications, pricing structure, and a sustainability plan. Access to clean water in northern Nigeria's growing peri-urban belt is one of the most tractable infrastructure problems a young designer or entrepreneur can actually address.
Audit the Informal Building Inspection Gap in a Nigerian Secondary City
Participants will produce a data-driven audit of how building approvals and inspections actually function in a Nigerian city outside Lagos or Abuja, identifying where the system breaks down and what a realistic intervention looks like. Building collapses in Nigeria are routine; the inspection system exists on paper but rarely in practice.
Build a Business Model for a Community-Owned Road Maintenance Service in Rural Oyo State
Participants will develop a viable business model for a community-run organisation that maintains rural feeder roads in Oyo State, including revenue structure, governance, and a one-page pitch for local government buy-in. Feeder road deterioration cuts off farming communities from markets and costs rural households far more than the roads would cost to maintain.
Design a Low-Cost Flood-Resistant Housing Prototype for Lagos Waterfront Communities
Participants will design a structurally sound, affordable housing unit adapted for flood-prone areas in Lagos, producing a full design concept with cost estimates and material specifications. Millions of Lagos residents live on land that floods seasonally, and most existing housing was built without any account for that reality.
Create a Job Search Toolkit for First-Generation Graduates in Northern Nigeria
Participants will design a practical, offline-accessible job search toolkit for first-generation university graduates in northern Nigerian states, where professional networks are thin and formal employment norms are unfamiliar.
Redesign the Onboarding Experience for Nigeria's National Youth Service Corps
Participants will audit the current NYSC orientation camp experience and produce a redesigned onboarding journey that better prepares corps members for the world of work, particularly for those heading into underserved postings.