AUDA-NEPAD Home Grown Solutions Accelerator 2026 – YOA

Deadline: May 19, 2026

Applications are open for the AUDA-NEPAD Home Grown Solutions Accelerator 2026. The Home Grown Solutions (HGS) Accelerator is an initiative of the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD), supported by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the official improvement help company of the Government of Japan. The Accelerator operates according to the African Union’s Energize Africa Initiative and Agenda 2063 aspirations.

The accelerator is targeted on supporting African Home Grown Solutions throughout 2 sectors:

Healthcare ventures strengthening Africa’s well being methods throughout any healthcare subsectors rising resilience together with:

• Diagnostics & Medical Devices
• Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Products
• Digital Health & Health Technology
• Maternal, Newborn & Child Health
• Disease Prevention & Management
• Health Workforce & Training
• Health Supply Chain & Logistics

Climate-focused ventures driving local weather resilience throughout 4 sub-sectors:

Energy & Power – Ventures targeted on rising entry to and use of unpolluted and inexpensive vitality throughout Africa together with:

• Decentralized vitality methods corresponding to off-grid photo voltaic, mini-grids, battery storage and inexperienced hydrogen
• Innovative entry and use fashions corresponding to pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) clear vitality options and waste-based mostly clear cooking applied sciences

Mobility & Transport – Ventures offering sustainable mobility and transport options throughout Africa together with:

• Low-carbon automobiles and electrification options e.g., e-mobility, two-wheelers and fleet electrical automobiles
• Efficient logistics and transport companies together with final-mile supply, low-carbon logistics and inexperienced port options

Waste & Circular Economy – Ventures that develop options that scale back waste and promote round economic system rules throughout Africa together with:

• Waste discount by way of useful resource effectivity and packaging optimization, recycling and re-use
• Repurposing options together with e-waste and marine plastics recycling and accountable disposal of hazardous waste

Nature-Based Solutions – Ventures creating options that defend, restore and sustainably handle Africa’s pure ecosystems together with:

• Habitat safety and preservation
• Anti-poaching and sustainable tourism initiatives
• Restoration and rehabilitation efforts e.g., wetland restoration, coral gardening, forest ecosystem rehabilitation and nature-based mostly carbon removing options

Benefits

They will work shoulder-to-shoulder together with your crew to design and ship a personalized, 4-month acceleration programme in 2026, to assist your enterprise’s particular development wants throughout three key areas:

• Context particular advisory
• Investment readiness assist
• Matching to strategic companions

Eligibility

Healthcare enterprise eligibility standards

You will be described as a Home Grown Solution, that means you will need to:

• Operate primarily or solely in Africa (desire for corporations working throughout international locations)
• Employ principally native workers within the markets during which you’re lively
• Have sturdy African illustration in your management

You are a development or mature stage enterprise, that means you will need to:

• Be registered as a for-revenue entity
• Express ambition and potential to scale past your present dimension
• Demonstrate clear market traction and sizable buyer base
• Growth stage: You have recognized a robust product-market slot in your core providing / have confirmed the core idea of your enterprise, and are within the technique of scaling and rising your enterprise
• Mature stage: You have efficiently confirmed that your core providing is viable at scale, ideally throughout a number of markets

You strengthen Africa’s well being system, for instance:

• You manufacture medical consumables or gadgets on the continent
• You present healthcare companies to sufferers, be it diagnostic, remedy or in any other case
• You present know-how options to strengthen well being entry or supply

Climate-focused enterprise eligibility standards

You will be described as a Home Grown Solution, that means you will need to:

• Operate primarily or solely in Africa (desire for corporations working throughout international locations)
• Employ principally native workers within the markets during which you’re lively
• Have sturdy African illustration in your management

You are an early, development or mature stage enterprise, that means you will need to:

• Be registered as a for-revenue entity
• Express ambition and potential to scale past your present dimension
• Demonstrate clear market traction and sizable buyer base
• Early stage: You are nonetheless proving product-market match and/or viability of your core providing
• Growth stage: You have recognized a robust product-market slot in your core providing / have confirmed the core idea of your enterprise, and are within the technique of scaling and rising your enterprise
• Mature stage: You have efficiently confirmed that your core providing is viable at scale, ideally throughout a number of markets

You strengthen Africa’s local weather resilience within the focus sub-sectors, for instance:

• You manufacture or distribute clear vitality services or products
• You present sustainable mobility or transport options
• You handle waste or develop round economic system options
• You develop or implement nature-based mostly options

Application

After the submission deadline, shortlisted corporations shall be requested to supply references of buyers and clients and extra excessive-stage info on their funds as much as March/April 2026. Final choice making will occur in direction of finish of May 2026, with Acceleration assist definition and supply to happen between June and September 2026.

For extra info, go to AUDA-NEPAD Home Grown Solutions Accelerator.