Deadline: February 28, 2025
Applications are open for the AUDA-NEPAD Home Grown Solutions Accelerator for Pandemic Resilience 2025. The Home Grown Solutions (HGS) Accelerator for Pandemic Resilience is an initiative that aims to accelerate the growth of African healthcare companies to strengthen the continent’s pandemic resilience, in line with the African Union’s Energize Africa Initiative and Agenda 2063 aspirations.
This is achieved through offering hands-on and tailored support to early-, growth- and mature stage healthcare businesses. The African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) founded the Accelerator initiative in partnership with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the official development assistance agency of the Government of Japan.
Benefits
They will work shoulder-to-shoulder with your team to design and deliver a customized, four-month acceleration roadmap in 2025, to support your company’s specific growth needs across three key areas:
- Context specific advisory
- Investment readiness support
- Matching strategic partners
Eligibility
- You are a growth or mature stage company, meaning you must:
- Be registered as a for-profit entity.
- Demonstrate clear market traction and sizable customer base.
- Express ambition and potential to scale beyond your current size.
- You strengthen Africa’s health system, for example:
- You manufacture medical consumables or devices on the continent.
- You provide healthcare services to patients, be it diagnostic, treatment or otherwise.
- You provide technology solutions to strengthen health access or delivery.
- You can be described as a Home Grown Solution, meaning you must:
- Operate mainly or solely in Africa (preference for companies operating across countries).
- Employ mostly local staff in the markets in which you are active.
- Have strong African representation in your leadership.
Application
You can apply for the Accelerator using the form with deadline set on the February 28, 2025. After the submission deadline, shortlisted companies will be asked to provide references of investors and customers and additional high-level information on their finances during March/April 2025. Final decision making will happen towards end of April 2025, with Acceleration support definition and delivery to occur between May and August 2025.
For more information, visit AUDA-NEPAD Home Grown Solutions Accelerator.
