Applications are currently being accepted for the AUDA-NEPAD’s Home Grown Solutions Accelerator 2026. Interested applicants are encouraged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
About AUDA-NEPAD’s Home Grown Solutions Accelerator
The AUDANEPAD’s Home Grown Solutions Accelerator 2026 is a call for applications for African healthcare and climate ventures. This initiative aims to support ventures that are already showing traction and have the potential to scale across Africa. The program is designed to help African ventures scale their impact and operations, focusing on sectors critical to Africa's long-term development. Selected startups will receive structured support, institutional backing, and access to high-level networks without equity pressure. The program is ideal for growth and mature-stage ventures, not early-stage ideas, and is backed by the African Union and implemented with global partners like JICA
Benefits of AUDA-NEPAD’s Home Grown Solutions Accelerator
They will work shoulder-to-shoulder with your team to design and deliver a customized, four-month acceleration programme in 2026, to support your venture's specific growth needs across three key areas:
- Context specific advisory
- Investment readiness support
- Matching to strategic partners
AUDA-NEPAD’s Home Grown Solutions Accelerator Requirements
Healthcare venture eligibility criteria:
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
You are a growth or mature stage venture, meaning you must …
- Be registered as a for-profit entity
- Express ambition and potential to scale beyond your current size
- Demonstrate clear market traction and sizable customer base
- Growth stage: You have identified a strong product-market fit in your core offering / have proven the core concept of your venture, and are in the process of scaling and growing your venture
- Mature stage: You have successfully proven that your core offering is viable at scale, ideally across multiple markets
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
Climate-focused venture eligibility criteria:
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
You are an early, growth or mature stage venture, meaning you must …
- Be registered as a for-profit entity
- Express ambition and potential to scale beyond your current size
- Demonstrate clear market traction and sizable customer base
- Early stage: You are still proving product-market fit and/or viability of your core offering
- Growth stage: You have identified a strong product-market fit in your core offering / have proven the core concept of your venture, and are in the process of scaling and growing your venture
- Mature stage: You have successfully proven that your core offering is viable at scale, ideally across multiple markets
You strengthen Africa's climate resilience in the focus sub-sectors, for example …
- You manufacture or distribute clean energy products or services
- You provide sustainable mobility or transport solutions
- You manage waste or develop circular economy solutions
- You develop or implement nature-based solutions
Application Date and Process
- You can apply for the Accelerator using the form below, with the deadline set as the 19th of May 2026. After the submission deadline, shortlisted companies will be asked to provide references of investors and customers and additional high-level information on their finances up to March/April 2026. Final decision making will happen towards end of May 2026, with Acceleration support definition and delivery to occur between June and September 2026.
If you are a healthcare venture apply here
If you are a climate venture apply here
Application Deadline
19 May, 2026
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