World Food Programme (WFP) Humanitarian Innovation Accelerator 2025 – YOA

Deadline: April 20, 2025

Applications are open for the World Food Programme (WFP) Humanitarian Innovation Accelerator 2025. 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 help know-how-powered options addressing urgent challenges confronted by susceptible populations and humanitarian actors. The platform helps chosen ventures and resolution suppliers with monetary, technical, and methodological help from the WFP Innovation Accelerator and its accomplice ecosystem.

As excessive climate occasions, battle, and displacement escalate, humanitarian wants proceed to develop, outpacing out there sources. Addressing these complicated and interconnected challenges requires a shift from conventional humanitarian approaches to extra adaptive, know-how-pushed options and strategic partnerships. Technological developments have the potential to mitigate disasters, improve emergency response effectivity, and rework the lives of susceptible communities worldwide. HIA seeks confirmed, revolutionary, know-how-pushed options that present disaster-affected populations with entry to info, monetary sources, and important infrastructure. Additionally, HIA seeks improvements that strengthen humanitarian organizations’ disaster administration and coordination capabilities. 

They welcome purposes from established startups, corporations, NGOs, and organizations able to scale impactful options for international humanitarian challenges to showcase their improvements that match beneath one among 4 challenges areas. They additionally welcome “wildcard” entries, together with chopping-edge applied sciences that at present function in different sectors however have sturdy potential to be tailored for humanitarian and emergency settings.

Benefits

• Hands-on help: Access to a co-creation studying expertise designed to refine your resolution and activate your path to scale.
• Visibility: An opportunity to showcase your resolution on a worldwide stage to pitch and community with technical specialists, business leaders and traders on the Luxembourg Humanitarian Days.
• Funding: Apply for fairness-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 help from the WFP Innovation Accelerator and related companions by the length of the dash.

Eligibility

• Your group have to be a longtime authorized entity (for-revenue, non for revenue, social enterprise, NGO, INGO) for not less than 2 years. 
• Your group ought to have already got a presence within 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 through the 12-month Sprint with the out there funding. 
• Solutions have to be past the prototype/pilot part, with demonstrated proof of person adoption, operational feasibility, and readiness to scale impression.
• Applicants are anticipated to construct connections with the innovation ecosystem of Luxembourg.

Evaluation Criteria

In accordance with the above, purposes will likely be evaluated in accordance with the next standards: 

• Impact & Scalability: Applicants ought to have an outlined imaginative and prescient, an recognized goal group, and be capable to display the potential to resolve the posed problem(s).
• Team: Applicants ought to be capable to display they’ve a various, non-discriminatory, gender-balanced group with demonstrated management and entrepreneurial mindset. 
• Novelty: Applicants ought to be capable to present how their resolution is revolutionary and aggressive whereas being technically appropriate, and viable.  
• Traction: Applicants ought to be capable to current proof of feasibility and adoption by the goal group and robust engagement with related stakeholders.
• Business Model: Applicants ought to display the viability of their enterprise mannequin, how they intend to attain a sustainable enterprise, pricing, and monetary mannequin. 

Application

Do you’ve got an answer that addresses urgent emergency and humanitarian challenges confronted by susceptible populations and humanitarian actors? If sure then apply!

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For extra info, go to WFP Humanitarian Innovation Accelerator.