Home Grown Solutions (HGS) Accelerator for Pandemic Resilience in Africa

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Deadline: 7th February 2023

We are an acceleration programme focusing on growth and mature stage African healthcare companies, conceptualized in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and in a realization of the potential of local private sector solutions to strengthen the continent's pandemic resilience.

The selected companies will receive highly customized advisory support delivered by a world class panel of experts. We will work in collaboration with your team to design and deliver a customized, six-month acceleration roadmap, to support your company's specific growth needs across three key areas: Context specific advisory, investor readiness and matching to strategic partners.

In 2022, we expanded our programme to pan-Africa and had 14 Home Grown Solutions (HGS) across different African countries. In this year, we are also expecting to have diverse healthcare companies across Africa, especially those who are passionate to expand their business across the border and to contribute to socio-economic development of Africa from healthcare perspectives.

We are co-founded by the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) and financially supported by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

In order to qualify, businesses must:
1. Be a for-profit and qualified company at the growth or mature stage with proven products or services
2. Strengthen Africa's healthcare system
3. Be described as a Home Grown Solution

You will find more information about the accelerator and eligibility criteria here. This application needs to be filled in one-go. Therefore, if you want to prepare the answers in advance and discuss with your team, kindly access the full set of questions here.

Before proceeding with the application process, please have prepared PDF’s (max 5MB) that describe the qualifications of your company founders and leadership team as well as any pitch deck or company description document you would like to share.

Questions? Please contact [email protected]

Disclaimer: All information submitted will be kept confidential