CircularEconomy4Ghana Innovation Challenge 2026 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: August 8, 2026

Applications are open for the CircularEconomy4Ghana Innovation Challenge 2026. The CircularEconomy4Ghana Innovation Challenge is designed to assist novel applied sciences that strengthen the round economic system, improve meals safety, and construct lengthy-time period resilience inside Ghana’s agricultural sector.

They empower entrepreneurs to check, scale-up, and develop their early-stage improvements into market-prepared options offering tailor-made enterprise mentorship, market entry, product validation, and pilot testing with finish-customers.  

The CircularEconomy4Ghana Innovation Challenge is led by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT by the Accelerate for Impact Platform (A4IP) and applied in partnerships with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) / ITPO and with E4Impact, with assist of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy.

Benefits

Through this system, you’ll obtain palms-on instruments and step-by-step assist to construct a stable go-to-market technique, validate your know-how, and entry actual market alternatives. You will profit from:

• A deep understanding of Ghana’s agriculture.
• A completely funded, 4-day immersive bootcamp in Accra, Ghana.
• Strategic connects with agribusinesses and ecosystem companions.
• Expert steerage from CGIAR scientists and UNIDO consultants.
• A 3-month sponsored accelerator program, structured round 5 pillars, combining entrepreneurial coaching, technical help, and extra.
• Opportunities to satisfy buyers and business companions.

Eligibility

• They are on the look-out for early-stage agri-tech improvements with a working Minimum Viable Product (MVP), ideally already examined with finish-customers.
• Teams must be actively fundraising on the pre-seed or seed stage.
• Solutions should deal with actual market wants, reply to native agricultural challenges, align with a minimum of one of many designated precedence areas, and ship tangible advantages to smallholder farmers and worth chain actors. 

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to CircularEconomy4Ghana Innovation Challenge.