Deadline Date: February 01, 2026
Are you an innovator with a healthcare solution that can improve lives in Tanzania? The PDP Incubation Program provides a unique opportunity for early-stage projects to access advanced prototyping facilities, expert mentorship, and business support to turn ideas into impactful medical solutions.
The program focuses on critical healthcare innovation, potential for community impact, early-stage project feasibility, collaborative engagement, diverse and complementary teams, and adherence to legal and ethical standards.
PDP offers purpose-built facilities that enable local development of healthcare and medical device innovations, reducing dependency on external manufacturing and allowing faster iteration, testing, and refinement. Innovators can confidently progress through prototyping, functional testing, and validation with continuous guidance from the technical team across the product development lifecycle. By combining up to USD 3,000 in in-kind support with access to specialized tools and expert mentorship, PDP significantly lowers early-stage development barriers and accelerates readiness for real-world impact.
Participants benefit from a strong multidisciplinary support system powered by a network of partners and experts across healthcare, life sciences, research, makerspaces, regulatory, legal, and business development. Each cohort is designed around the specific needs of startups, ensuring access to targeted expertise in clinical validation, engineering, manufacturing, regulatory insight, or market entry. This collaborative ecosystem equips innovators with practical insights, industry connections, and opportunities to strengthen both their solutions and their entrepreneurial journey.
Beyond technical development, PDP provides structured incubation and business modeling support to help innovators transform promising ideas into viable and sustainable healthcare ventures. The program covers human-centered design, business modeling, value proposition development, legal and regulatory considerations, and pathways to sustainability and scale. This customized approach ensures that each startup receives the right support at the right time, enabling confident progress toward implementation and impact.
The PDP program welcomes innovators, engineers, researchers, startups, and health practitioners with ideas addressing critical healthcare challenges in Tanzania. Participating teams should have a minimum of two members with complementary skills, demonstrate project feasibility, show potential for growth and community impact, be open to collaboration, and adhere to ethical and legal standards, including patient confidentiality and data privacy.
For more information, visit Ifakara Innovation Hub.
