UNDP Africa Create4Peace Youth Online Innovation Challenge 2026 for young African creatives (Fully Funded to the Culture and Creative Industries Festival in Cameroon)

Application Deadline: July 2nd, 2026

Applications are actually open for the 2026 UNDP Africa Create4Peace Youth Online Innovation Challenge. The problem goals to assist young Africans who’re utilizing tradition and creativity as instruments to promote social cohesion, dialogue, and peacebuilding. Creatives4Peace welcomes submissions from young creatives throughout Africa whose inventive work demonstrates how tradition and artistic expression can bridge divides, foster tolerance, and contribute to extra inclusive and peaceable societies.  

Submissions might take any inventive type, so long as it may be shared digitally/on-line. Selected members will obtain visibility and assist, in addition to the alternative to showcase their work at the Culture and Creative Industries Festival in Cameroon.

Culture & Creative Industry Areas

Performing Arts

Projects centered on stay or recorded inventive expression, together with music, brief movies, dance, theater, spoken phrase, poetry, storytelling, and performance-based productions.  

Gaming 

Projects involving digital or bodily video games, board video games, cellular video games, video video games, simulations, puzzles, interactive studying instruments, and gamified experiences.  

Digital Art

Projects utilizing digital applied sciences to create visible, audiovisual, or interactive content material, together with graphic design, illustration, animation, pictures, videography, digital storytelling, and multimedia manufacturing.  

Fashion

Projects involving clothes, textiles, equipment, wearable design, costume design, sustainable style, upcycling, or fashion-related artistic enterprises.  

Craft and Artisan

Projects centered on handmade merchandise, conventional/indigenous craftsmanship, artisan manufacturing, portray, design, woodworking, ceramics, jewellery, weaving, textiles, and different types of artistic making.  

Benefits

Selected/Winner Candidates:

• Three chosen candidates will obtain a notification to current their work at the Culture and Creative Industries Festival in Cameroon (flights + DSA lined by UNDP) in September, together with: 
• The probability to community with fellow young creatives from throughout the continent and diaspora, achieve visibility and Opportunities for additional assist their work. 
• The alternative to pitch their work to non-public sector companions for potential collaboration or funding. 

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the UNDP Africa Create4Peace Youth Online Innovation Challenge