Deadline: 13 November 2023
Uganda Response Innovation Lab is launching call of investments in start-ups and small businesses which make a positive difference for children and communities in Uganda in the areas of health and nutrition.
The objective of RIL is to support addressing the needs of the people most impacted by inequality and discrimination through problem and solution analysis, localised adaptation, support to sound innovation models, and investment to pilot and scale. RIL supports innovators to maximise their ability to deliver successful innovations in humanitarian context.
The Uganda Response Innovation Lab (U-RIL) provides a solutions system for the humanitarian innovation ecosystem in Uganda and supports nexus solutions that enable crisis-affected populations to shift from emergency aid to progressively more durable solutions, with a focus on supporting locally-led solutions. Localisation and strengthening of the innovation ecosystem are two strategies of the U-RIL to encourage a sustainable transformation in Uganda and an environment that is more favorable to humanitarian innovation and social-impact-driven innovation and entrepreneurship.
The implemented activities are grouped under the key functions of RIL including Convening, Matchmaking, Supporting, Evidence generation and dissemination.
Uganda Response Innovation Lab has received funding from Kumwe Hub to support innovations that are small social businesses, by offering low interest loans and recoverable grants ranging from US$5,000 to US$10,000 as capital and a tailored package of wrap-around services that include technical support, business advisory, and mentoring from world-class business experts.
The loan and recoverable grant fund are focused on businesses that are working in health and nutrition for children. Successful applicants will join a network of Ugandan businesses that impact the lives of children.
Who Should Apply?
- Innovations that are small social businesses with a proven track record or clear potential for making a positive impact on the health and nutrition of children, that are restrained by lack of appropriate financing or need business support to grow and increase the impact on the lives of children and communities.
What are the eligibility criteria?
- Eligible businesses must:
- Be a for-profit business entity.
- Offer products or services for health and nutrition which benefit children
- Clearly demonstrate how the business and the loan will positively impact children
- Be legally registered in Uganda.
- Be a local business with operations based in Uganda and products or services accessed by communities in Uganda.
- Operate in the areas of improving health and nutrition of children.
- Have evidence of at least 1 year of consistent revenues.
For more information, visit Save the Children (SC).
