Home Grown Solutions (HGS) Accelerator for Pandemic Resilience in Africa
We are an Acceleration program for growth and mature stage African healthcare companies, conceptualized in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and in a realization of both the potential of local private sector solutions to strengthen the continent’s pandemic resilience as well as the lack of more mature stage and healthcare specific support mechanisms for those players.
Our pilot featuring 5 East African HGS was launched in 2021, followed by a successful Pan-African expansion in 2022 supporting 14 HGS, a cohort of 9 HGS were supported in 2023 and another with 10 HGS in 2024. Across the years, these consisted of DrugStoc, AHN, Revital, Rology, and Zuri Health, among others, assisted by a supporting network that includes the likes of GIZ, Rwandan Development Board, AAIC, World Food Programme, World Health Organization, UNIDO, VKAV and others.
We will work in collaboration with your team to design and deliver a customized, four-month acceleration roadmap, to support your company’s specific growth needs across three key areas: technical and contextual advisory, investment readiness and matching to strategic partners.
In this year, we are also expecting to have diverse healthcare companies across Africa, especially those who are passionate to expand their business across the border and to contribute to socio-economic development of Africa from healthcare perspectives.
We are co-founded by the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) and financially supported by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
In order to qualify, businesses must:
1. Be a for-profit and qualified company at the growth or mature stage with proven products or services
2. Strengthen Africa’s healthcare system
3. Be described as a Home Grown Solution
You will find more information about the accelerator and eligibility criteria here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OP7IxN0Jt1gk44MSHKdg_yR4PIoOMy5D/view?usp=sharing
This application needs to be filled in one-go. Therefore, if you want to prepare the answers in advance and discuss with your team, kindly access the full set of questions here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j024nzcH1gSCZhNNpUrr1ob8mQVBrVqu/view?usp=sharing
Before proceeding with the application process, please have prepared PDF’s (max 5MB) that describe the qualifications of your company founders and leadership team as well as any pitch deck or company description document you would like to share.
The deadline to submit your application is February, 28th 2025.
Questions? Please contact: HGSAHealthSol@nepad.org
Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdWrLwp-0kHSmot5VLT2XYPo5whvrKluQyjD2UH5Zq_Ws5KEw/viewform
