Deadline: August 22, 2025
Applications are open for the Gender Summit 2025 – Innovation Pitchathon. They are inviting innovators, entrepreneurs, researchers, and change-makers to pitch their groundbreaking ideas at the Gender Summit 2025. If you have a product, service, or initiative that can transform lives in Child Nutrition, Maternal Health or Agriculture, this is your chance to showcase it to a network of decision-makers and stakeholders who can catalyze growth and investments for your ideas.
Benefits
- Fully sponsored trip to attend the Gender & Inclusion Summit in Abuja on the 3rd and 4th of September.
- Platform to pitch your innovation to high-level stakeholders in government, development partners, and ecosystem players for support and collaboration.
- 3-month post-summit design support at the PIC Innovation Lab.
Eligibility
- Your innovation is real (not just an idea) and can be implemented in the real world.
- Your innovation must address challenges in Nutrition, Maternal Health or Agriculture (or multiple).
- Open to ideas in the prototype, pilot, or early-scale stage. Established solutions seeking scale or partnerships are also welcome.
- Innovators, entrepreneurs, researchers, startups, social enterprises, NGOs, or community-based initiatives can apply.
- Applicants must be based in or have operations impacting communities in Africa.
Application
- Application Deadline: 22nd August 2025
- Notification of Selected Pitches: 25th August 2025
- Summit Dates: 3–4 September 2025, Abuja, Nigeria
For more information, visit Gender Summit Innovation Pitchathon.
