African healthcare businesses have been invited to apply for the fourth cohort of AUDA-NEPAD’s Home Grown Solutions Accelerator for Pandemic Resilience.
The Home Grown Solutions (HGS) Accelerator for Pandemic Resilience is an initiative that aims to accelerate the growth of African healthcare companies to strengthen the continent’s pandemic resilience, in line with the African Union’s 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 African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) founded the accelerator initiative in partnership with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the official development assistance agency of the Government of Japan.
Following the pilot in 2021 supporting five East African ventures, the initiative was successfully expanded across Africa in 2022, where it assisted its second cohort of 14 ventures, followed by the third round in 2023 supporting a further nine.
Across the years, these consisted of DrugStoc, MDaaS Global, Revital, Rology, Sinapi and Zuri Health, among others, and applications are now open for the latest call for applications.
Applications are open here until May 14.
