Call for Proposals: Women Technology and Innovation Programme (WTIP) 2025 (up to R200,000) – YOA

Deadline: April 28, 2025

Proposals are invited by the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) for expertise-primarily based options that tackle challenges confronted by girls within the following areas: maternal well being, sanitary well being, gender-primarily based violence, reproductive well being and every other problem peculiar to girls that may be addressed by an progressive answer.

TIA has established the Women Technology and Innovation Programme (WTIP) to advance the strategic intent of the 2019 White Paper on Science, Technology and Innovation on selling transformation with the National System of Innovation. In this, TIA goals to tackle the underrepresentation of ladies within the expertise and innovation sector, rising their participation and making certain that innovation can be used to tackle their challenges.

grant

• Solutions will likely be funded up to a most of R200,000.

Eligibility

Applicants who need to obtain funding or help by WTIP should meet the next eligibility standards:

• Be a South African citizen or Permanent Resident.
• Company registered and domiciled in South African.
• Applicants who’ve progressive and domestically developed expertise options requiring early-stage derisking, demonstration or help for market uptake.
• Only girls are eligible to apply below this Call.

Selection Criteria

The proposed answer should meet the next minimal necessities:

• The proposed answer should be new or improved with clear proof of idea.
• It should reply to the recognized want with a transparent demonstration of potential clients and route to the market.
• It should tackle both a social want or financial influence.
• The answer is progressive, expertise-primarily based, possible and require additional improvement and testing of both a product, course of or service.

Application

Complete the WTIP Application Form and e-mail a signed PDF model of accomplished type to [email protected].

For extra data, go to WTIP.