Halcyon Climate Resilience & Food Security in Africa Fellowship 2026 for African Startups – Opportunities For Africans

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Application Deadline: November twentieth, 2025

Applications are actually open for the 2026 Halcyon Climate Resilience & Food Security in Africa Fellowship. Halcyon’s 2026 Climate Resilience & Food Security in Africa Fellowship will serve founders who’re constructing sustainable options in local weather adaptation and resilience and meals safety on the continent. Through a hybrid programming format, chosen entrepreneurs will attend a one-week, in-person residency in Accra, Ghana, 5 digital programming days, and a closing one-week, in-person residency in Nairobi, Kenya.

Sectors

Solutions addressing local weather adaptation and resilience and meals safety, together with however not restricted to:

• Climate-smart agriculture and meals programs
• Renewable and resilient power programs and storage
• Adaptive infrastructure and inexperienced constructing applied sciences
• Climate intelligence and early-warning programs
• WaterTech (water safety, resilient water programs, and extra)
• Blue economic system and coastal resilience
• And extra

Requirements

• Location: Africa
• Stage: Must have a working Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and a sensible potential to scale. Applicants should exhibit early consumer suggestions or proof of early industrial validation, resembling pilots, LOIs, or income.
• Team:
  • May apply with as much as one Co-Founder.
  • Applicant should be the CEO or maintain major decision-making energy.
  • Must be fluent in English (programming will likely be in English).
  • Must be at the least 21 years of age by the beginning of this system.
• Program Engagement: Applicant(s) should decide to taking part in all residencies, program actions, occasions, and in-person and digital periods.
• Impact: Must be creating a product and enterprise which contributes in direction of a number of of the UN’s 17 SDGs.

Benefits

• $10K in Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) credit
• $6K equity-free stipend per enterprise
• Workshops with specialists in product-market match, capital technique, and management
• Professional advisors
• Networking with traders and diversified stakeholders in local weather
• Access to Halcyon’s international neighborhood of 600+ founders
• Continued advantages after your program—see our Alumni page for extra

Application Timeline

• October thirty first, 2025: Application window opens
• November twentieth, 2025: Last likelihood to submit your eligibility application to be thought of for this application window! Halcyon crew begins reviewing eligibility purposes
• November twenty fourth, 2025: Halcyon crew sends out invitational purposes to pick candidates
• December 4th, 2025: Invitational application deadline
• Late December, 2025: Finalists invited to a digital pitch
• Mid-Late January, 2026: Selected founders notified
• March twenty fifth, 2026: Virtual Program Kickoff
• April Seventeenth-April twenty fourth, 2026: Residency Week #1 in Accra, Ghana
• May fifth, 2026: Virtual Meeting #2
• May twentieth, 2026: Virtual Meeting #3
• June tenth, 2026: Virtual Meeting #4
• July ninth, 2026: Virtual Meeting #5
• July 24-July thirty first, 2026: Residency Week #2 in Nairobi, Kenya

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Halcyon Climate Resilience & Food Security in Africa Fellowship