WFP Humanitarian Innovation Accelerator Program 2025 for startups and Innovators (USD $150,000 in equity-free funding)

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Application Deadline:  April 20, 11:59 pm (CEST)

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025 WFP Humanitarian Innovation Accelerator Program. The WFP Innovation Accelerator is launching the second version of the Humanitarian Innovation Accelerator (HIA), powered by the Government of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. HIA goals to assist technology-powered options addressing urgent challenges confronted by weak populations and humanitarian actors. The platform helps chosen ventures and answer suppliers with monetary, technical, and methodological assist from the WFP Innovation Accelerator and its associate ecosystem.

Requirements

• The WFP accelerator invites functions from established startups, corporations, NGOs, and organizations able to scale impactful options for world humanitarian challenges to showcase their improvements that match below one in every of 4 challenges areas.

Countries: functions from organizations implementing options in the next areas:

Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, Iraq, Laos, Lebanon, Libya,, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar Niger, Palestine, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen

• Your group have to be a longtime authorized entity (for-profit, non for revenue, social enterprise, NGO, INGO) for a minimum of 2 years. 
• Your group ought to have already got a presence in the nation of implementation, has constructed partnerships or has proof of curiosity from potential companions and stakeholders, particularly with related humanitarian actors.
• Your innovation ought to have a transparent pathway to scale and a possible plan to implement in the course of the 12-month Sprint with the accessible funding. 
• Solutions have to be past the prototype/pilot section, with demonstrated proof of person adoption, operational feasibility, and readiness to scale influence.
• Applicants are anticipated to construct connections with the innovation ecosystem of Luxembourg

 * Key Considerations:

• We prioritize organizations that target empowering ladies, both by their beneficiaries, job creation, or by having a excessive illustration of girls in management positions.
• The group pays consideration to environmental safety, in addition to social inclusion and cohesion.

Benefits

Hands-on assist
Access to a co-creation studying expertise designed to refine your answer and activate your path to scale.

Visibility
An opportunity  to showcase your answer on a world stage to pitch and community with technical consultants, business leaders and buyers on the Luxembourg Humanitarian Days.

funding
Apply for equity-free funding of as much as USD $150,000 to implement your proposed scaling plan over a 12-month dash.

Mentorship and Global Access
Participants who obtain funding  will obtain as much as 12 months of acceleration assist from the WFP Innovation Accelerator and related companions by the length of the dash

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the WFP Humanitarian Innovation Accelerator Program