Deadline Date: May 19, 2026
The AUDA-NEPAD Home Grown Solutions Accelerator is requesting applications to support African healthcare and climate ventures in scaling impactful, homegrown solutions across the continent.
The focus areas, of the program include strengthening African healthcare systems, advancing diagnostics and medical devices, pharmaceuticals and healthcare products, digital health and health technology, maternal and child health, disease prevention and management, health workforce development, health supply chains, climate resilience, clean and affordable energy access, decentralized energy systems, sustainable mobility and transport solutions, waste management and circular economy approaches, and nature-based ecosystem protection and restoration.
The Home Grown Solutions Accelerator is an initiative of the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD), supported by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and aligned with the African Union’s Energize Africa Initiative and Agenda 2063 aspirations. It is designed to support African-led ventures that are addressing critical development challenges in healthcare and climate resilience.
The program focuses on two main sectors. The healthcare sector supports ventures working across multiple areas of health systems strengthening, including medical innovation, digital health solutions, maternal and child health, disease prevention, workforce development, and healthcare logistics and supply chains. The climate sector supports ventures working in energy and power, mobility and transport, waste and circular economy systems, and nature-based solutions that protect and restore ecosystems across Africa.
The accelerator is expanding in 2026 beyond healthcare to include climate-focused ventures, responding to increasing climate risks and the urgent need for climate action across the continent. Selected ventures will benefit from a four-month customized acceleration program tailored to their growth needs.
The offering includes context-specific advisory support to diagnose venture needs and provide tailored consulting, investment readiness support to strengthen fundraising capacity and connect ventures with capital opportunities, and strategic partner matching to enable collaboration with key organizations that can help scale impact.
Eligibility requirements differ by sector. Healthcare ventures must operate mainly in Africa, employ mostly local staff in their operating markets, and demonstrate strong African leadership representation. Climate-focused ventures must also meet these criteria and additionally be registered for-profit entities with clear scaling ambition, demonstrated market traction, and a defined stage of development, which may include early, growth, or mature stages based on product-market fit and scale readiness.
The program highlights strong prior impact, including millions of patients served, significant additional capital raised, increased manufacturing value, and thousands of jobs created across Africa.
For more information, visit AUDA NEPAD.
