LEAP Africa Social Innovators Programme (SIP) 2026 – YOA

Deadline: June 12, 2026

Applications for the LEAP Africa Social Innovators Programme (SIP) 2026 are actually open. The Social Innovators Programme (SIP) is a 9-month fellowship that recognises the transformative potential of social innovation in Africa. The programme is designed to deal with systemic challenges and promote sustainable improvement by offering early-stage social entrepreneurs with the important abilities, sources, information and help wanted to beat boundaries to progress and improvement.

For the previous 13 years, LEAP Africa, by the SIP, has empowered over 294 younger social innovators, reworking the lives of over 4 million individuals throughout 14 African nations, with over $7.8 million in funding and income generated.

This programme is for younger Africans between 18-35 years of age with Social Enterprises addressing challenges inside Africa. Fellows are drawn from a wide range of fields similar to; Agriculture, Technology, Climate Action, Sustainable Cities and Communities, Affordable and Clean Energy, and Workforce Development. Fellows will take part in 4-6 weeks of intensive digital periods, 4 months of mentorship, and converge bodily on the finish of the programme for the Awards ceremony. Fellows can have the OPPORTUNITY to current their social enterprises to potential buyers, funders, and policymakers.

Core Learning Areas

• Social innovation and enterprise design
• Market entry and progress technique
• Funding fashions and capital technique
• Financial administration and controls
• Impact measurement and consequence harvesting
• Strategy, governance, and crew effectiveness
• Pitch improvement and stakeholder engagement

Eligibility

• You are a citizen of an African nation OR You are a everlasting resident of an African nation.
• Your present and future enterprise is geographically situated in a local people in an African nation.
• You have based or co-based a social enterprise(s) with no less than one (3) yr of affect.
• You can be between 18 – and 35-years-previous as at April, 2026.
• You are professionally proficient in English (spoken and written). purposes have to be accomplished in English.
• You can commit to completely collaborating in all the period of this system between April to October, 2026.
• Applicants have to be the founder or co-founding father of a enterprise that has not beforehand participated within the LEAP Africa Social Innovators programme, and just one co-founder per enterprise could apply.
• Participants should not have any greater than three absences with the intention to full this system and graduate from the fellowship.

Application

The 2026 Social Innovators Programme application will shut by May 2026. In order to keep away from technical glitches or different issues attributable to points similar to web entry, it’s strongly suggested that you simply full the application early. Due to the variety of purposes acquired, LEAP Africa can’t be chargeable for purposes that aren’t submitted on time, whatever the purpose.

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For extra data, go to SIP.