AUDA-NEPAD Home Grown Solutions Accelerator for Pandemic Resilience 2025 (5th Cohort) – YOA

Deadline: February 28, 2025

Applications are open for the AUDA-NEPAD Home Grown Solutions Accelerator for Pandemic Resilience 2025. The Home Grown Solutions (HGS) Accelerator for Pandemic Resilience is an initiative that goals to speed up the expansion of African healthcare corporations to strengthen the continent’s pandemic resilience, in keeping with the African Union’s Energize Africa Initiative and Agenda 2063 aspirations.

This is achieved by providing arms-on and tailor-made help to early-, growth- and mature stage healthcare companies. The African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) based the Accelerator initiative in partnership with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the official improvement help company of the Government of Japan.

Benefits

They will work shoulder-to-shoulder along with your workforce to design and ship a personalized, 4-month acceleration roadmap in 2025, to help your organization’s particular progress wants throughout three key areas:

• Context particular advisory
• Investment readiness help
• Matching strategic companions

Eligibility

• You are a progress or mature stage firm, that means you should:
  • Be registered as a for-profit entity.
  • Demonstrate clear market traction and sizable buyer base.
  • Express ambition and potential to scale past your present dimension.
• You strengthen Africa’s well being system, for instance:
  • You manufacture medical consumables or units on the continent.
  • You present healthcare providers to sufferers, be it diagnostic, therapy or in any other case.
  • You present know-how options to strengthen well being entry or supply.
• You will be described as a Home Grown Solution, that means you should:
  • Operate primarily or solely in Africa (desire for corporations working throughout nations).
  • Employ principally native workers within the markets during which you might be lively.
  • Have robust African illustration in your management.

Application

You can apply for the Accelerator utilizing the shape with deadline set on the February 28, 2025. After the submission deadline, shortlisted corporations will likely be requested to supply references of traders and clients and extra excessive-stage data on their funds throughout March/April 2025. Final resolution making will occur in the direction of finish of April 2025, with Acceleration help definition and supply to happen between May and August 2025.

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For extra data, go to AUDA-NEPAD Home Grown Solutions Accelerator.