Application is now Open for the 3rd Edition of Healthcare-focused African Startup Accelerator

For cohort three of the AUDA-NEPAD Home Grown Solutions Accelerator, which aims to offer emerging and mature-stage African healthcare enterprises with hands-on, highly targeted support in order to help them improve and flourish, applications are now being accepted.

The program, which was conceptualized in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to realize the potential of local private sector solutions to strengthen the continent’s pandemic resilience, is being led by the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD), with financial support from the Japan International Cooperation Agency, Boston Consulting Group, and Villgro Africa.

Since then, it has grown beyond the first 2021 pilot in East Africa, and the current edition is the third. Businesses must focus on improving Africa’s healthcare system, be for-profit, in the development or mature stage, and be referred to as a “Home Grown Solution” in order to be eligible.

The deadline for applications is the end of January.