MTN/WWF Africa PachiPanda Challenge 2025 ($5,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: Unspecified

Applications are open for the MTN/WWF Africa PachiPanda Challenge 2025. The Africa PachiPanda Challenge, a joint effort by MTN and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to encourage and assist revolutionary options addressing urgent environmental challenges throughout the continent.

This programme aligns with WWF’s world objectives, its Africa Strategy, and its established practices. It additionally provides vital worth to the Mobilising More for Climate (MM4C) Programme. Specifically, the problem contributes to reaching WWF’s core targets of zero habitat loss, stopping species extinction, and selling wholesome populations. Furthermore, WWF’s Africa Strategy, titled “Making Nature Count,” goals to make sure that the worth of Africa’s pure capital is totally built-in into resolution-making by governments, firms, monetary establishments, and society.

The programme spearheads MTN’s dedication to defending the planet by means of local weather entrepreneurship. By cultivating a pipeline of revolutionary African inexperienced enterprises that deal with native environmental challenges, they’re empowering youth-led companies and investing in a sustainable future for the continent. The programme engages youth-led SMEs in creating entrepreneurial options to present environmental challenges and advancing sustainability.

Challenge Details

The problem will happen in two phases. During part one, purposes in every nation can be shortlisted. Following this, chosen contributors will type groups of as much as three members and endure a human-centred design course of throughout a dash week. This course of will contain enterprise modelling, buyer identification, and creating distinctive worth propositions. The groups will then have the OPPORTUNITY to pitch their options to a specific panel of trade specialists, with the profitable groups strolling away with prizes and advancing to stage 2 – the Pan-African contest, the place they compete within the closing. 

Benefits

• For the 2025 Challenge, first-prize profitable groups from every taking part nation obtained prizes valued at $5,000 USD.
• The problem offers a platform for younger innovators to contribute to their communities and the broader continent, creating options that tackle environmental and social points. It additionally gives the chance to attach with a large community of like-minded people, potential buyers, and stakeholders, amplifying the visibility and influence of their tasks.

Eligibility

• The problem is open to younger folks between 18 and 35 and
• Youth-led SMEs from choose African international locations. 

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Africa PachiPanda Challenge.