AUDA-NEPAD's Home Grown Solutions Accelerator Cohort 5 for Pandemic Resilience

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Applications are open for AUDA-NEPAD’s Home Grown Solutions Accelerator Cohort 5 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.

AUDA-NEPAD’s Home Grown Solutions Accelerator Benefits

They will work shoulder-to-shoulder with your team to design and deliver a customized, four-month acceleration roadmap in 2025, to support your company’s specific growth needs across three key areas:

Context specific advisory
- They have a team of world class consultants to diagnose your business needs and deliver tailor-made business advisory services
Investment readiness support
- They help you be better prepared for fund raising including business model validation, pitch preparation and linking you to capital needed to scale
Matching to strategic partners
- They will leverage their network and introduce you to leading organizations to grow your business through partnership
As part of the fifth cohort, you will receive this unique offering for your business while shaping this Acceleration programme for fellow African businesses in the future. After this period and as a future alumnus of the Accelerator, you will continue to have access to their unique and growing network of peers, advisors, mentors, and potential partners.

Eligibility Criteria for AUDA-NEPAD’s Home Grown Solutions Accelerator

They have 3 application criteria you will have to meet to be considered for their fifth cohort:

You are a growth or mature stage company, meaning you must …
- Be registered as a for-profit entity
- Demonstrate clear market traction and sizable customer base
- Express ambition and potential to scale beyond your current size
You strengthen Africa’s health system, for example …
- You manufacture medical consumables or devices on the continent
- You provide healthcare services to patients, be it diagnostic, treatment or otherwise
- You provide technology solutions to strengthen health access or delivery
You can be described as a Home Grown Solution, meaning you must …
- Operate mainly or solely in Africa (preference for companies operating across countries)
- Employ mostly local staff in the markets in which you are active
- Have strong African representation in your leadership.