{"id":1431,"date":"2025-02-06T16:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T16:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2025-02-06T16:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T16:21:14","slug":"auda-nepads-home-grown-solutions-accelerator-for-pandemic-resilience-cohort-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/?p=1431","title":{"rendered":"AUDA-NEPAD\u2019s Home Grown Solutions Accelerator for Pandemic Resilience cohort 5."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"header-standard\n\t\t\">Application Deadline: February 25, 2025<\/div>\n<div class=\"standard-content\">\n<div class=\"standard-main-content entry-content\">\n<div class=\"post-entry standard-post-entry classic-post-entry blockquote-style-1 \">\n<p><strong>Applications are now open for the<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opportunitiesforafricans.com\/auda-nepad-home-grown-solutions-hgs-accelerator-for-pandemic-resilience-in-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.opportunitiesforafricans.com\/auda-nepad-home-grown-solutions-hgs-accelerator-for-pandemic-resilience-in-africa\/\">cohort 5 of the AUDA-NEPAD\u2019s Home Grown Solutions Accelerator for Pandemic Resilience program<\/a><\/strong>. The Home Grown Solutions (HGS)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nepad.org\/programme\/home-grown-solutions-hgs-accelerator-pandemic-resilience-africa\">Accelerator for Pandemic Resilience\u00a0<\/a>is an initiative that aims to accelerate the growth of African healthcare companies to strengthen the continent\u2019s pandemic resilience, in line with the African Union\u2019s Energize Africa Initiative and Agenda 2063 aspirations. This is achieved through offering hands-on and tailored support to early-, growth- and mature stage healthcare businesses. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nepad.org\/\">African Union Development Agency\u00a0<\/a>(AUDA-NEPAD) founded the Accelerator initiative in partnership with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jica.go.jp\/english\/index.html\">Japan International Cooperation Agency\u00a0<\/a>(JICA), the official development assistance agency of the Government of Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Eligibility Requirements<\/p>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You are a\u00a0growing or mature stage company\u00a0, meaning you must\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Be registered as a for-profit entity<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrate clear market traction and sizable customer base<\/li>\n<li>Express ambition and potential to scale beyond your current size<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"2\">\n<li>You\u00a0strengthen Africa\u2019s health system\u00a0, for example \u2026<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You manufacture medical consumables or devices on the continent<\/li>\n<li>You provide healthcare services to patients, be it diagnosis, treatment or otherwise<\/li>\n<li>You provide technology solutions to strengthen health access or delivery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"3\">\n<li>You can be described as a\u00a0Home Grown Solution\u00a0, meaning you must\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Operate mainly or solely in Africa (preference for companies operating across countries)<\/li>\n<li>Employ mostly local staff in the markets in which you are active<\/li>\n<li>Have strong African representation in your leadership<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For More Information:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nepad.org\/news\/calling-african-healthcare-businesses-apply-5th-cohort-of-auda-nepads-home-grown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nepad.org\/news\/calling-african-healthcare-businesses-apply-5th-cohort-of-auda-nepads-home-grown\">Visit the Official Webpage of the AUDA-NEPAD\u2019s Home Grown Solutions Accelerator for Pandemic Resilience<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Application Deadline: February 25, 2025 Applications are now open for the\u00a0cohort 5 of the AUDA-NEPAD\u2019s Home Grown Solutions Accelerator for Pandemic Resilience program. The Home Grown Solutions (HGS)\u00a0Accelerator for Pandemic Resilience\u00a0is an initiative that aims to accelerate the growth of African healthcare companies to strengthen the continent\u2019s pandemic resilience, in line with the African Union\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow1K2_DA:productID":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-call-for-applications"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}