Home-Grown Solutions Agribusiness Accelerator 2027 – YOA

Deadline: November 18, 2026

Applications are open for the Home-Grown Solutions Agribusiness Accelerator 2027. The Home-Grown Solutions Agribusiness Accelerator (HGSA-A) is a COMESA regional initiative funded by the Government of New Zealand via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and carried out by AUDA-NEPAD that helps progress-stage agribusinesses delivering scalable, modern, and impression-pushed options throughout Africa’s agricultural worth chain.

The HGSA-A seeks to advertise inclusive and sustainable agribusiness progress by scaling African-owned and -led enterprises addressing meals insecurity, local weather challenges, and commerce limitations. The programme offers tailor-made assist to strengthen funding readiness, improve fundraising capability, and develop regional commerce below the AfCFTA framework.

Benefits

• Context-specific Advisory Services: Tailored advisory companies designed to handle the distinctive challenges and alternatives in your market and business sector
• Cross-border Regulatory & Trade Facilitation Under AfCFTA: Navigate African Continental Free Trade Area alternatives with skilled steerage on rules and cross-border commerce facilitation
• Investment Readiness & Fundraising Support: Potential for accessing HGSA-A funding funding to assist enterprise progress.
• Matching to Strategic Partners: Connect with regional consumers, buyers, mentors and different strategic companions to speed up your corporation progress
• Post-Acceleration Support: Continued assist and steerage even after finishing the acceleration program to make sure sustained progress and success

Eligibility

• Be legally registered and operational in a COMESA member state.
• Align with the programme’s choice for girls-owned or led enterprises (70%) and youth-owned or led (18-35) enterprises (30%).
• Be an African-owned or African-led progress-stage firm.
• Demonstrate a confirmed and modern enterprise mannequin with an annual turnover near USD 100,000 (varies by nation).
• Operate inside inclusive, excessive-potential agribusiness worth chains akin to excessive-worth crops (excluding major manufacturing), enter provide, agro-processing, worth addition, commercialisation, import substitution, aggregation, logistics, distribution, market entry companies, digital agriculture, and local weather-sensible inputs.
• Show clear potential to entry regional or worldwide markets with robust scalability prospects (e.g., export linkages, COMESA partnerships, replicable fashions, or regional growth methods).
• Maintain audited monetary accounts for no less than the final 3 years and primary compliance constructions.
• Prioritize inclusive participation by partaking youth, ladies, individuals with disabilities, and refugees whereas contributing to meals safety and diet targets.
• Contribute to HGSA-A’s broader improvement goals of driving sustainable agribusiness progress that promotes Africa’s stability and prosperity.
• Actively pursue and promote inexperienced progress (consistent with the OECD Green Growth Strategy) via local weather-sensible, useful resource-environment friendly, and sustainable agricultural practices.

Application

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