The Africa Young Innovators for Health Award (Financial Support of $75,000)
Application Deadline: 31st of March, 2021
The Africa Young Innovators for Health Award is launching its first competition designed to highlight and support the work of pioneering young entrepreneurs developing health innovations.
We want to encourage entrepreneurship and help advance promising health care solutions that support and empower healthcare workers – those on the frontline of delivering healthcare to communities. Therefore, we are looking for innovative healthcare solutions aimed at supporting, protecting, and empowering healthcare workers through solutions like training programmes, providing protective equipment and improving the quality of healthcare
Eligibility criteria
* To be eligible to apply, you must be between the ages of 18 and 35 at the time of application, and a citizen or resident of an African country.
* Successful applicants will need to show how their inventive healthcare solution is scalable, measurable and how it makes a lasting impact for healthcare workers.
Benefits
Award winners will receive:
* Financial Support worth a total of $75,000 (First prize $40,000, Second prize $20,000, Third prize $15,000)
* A 3-month Business Mentorship programme from leading entrepreneurs.
* Technical support with Intellectual Property protection, if relevant.
* Gain exposure and recognition from global healthcare leaders and the public
Evaluation criteria
You must be able to show your innovation is scalable, measurable, has a sustainable and positive impact on healthcare workers and that the innovation is commercially viable. Submissions will be evaluated based on the following:
* Innovation: The submission must show, first and foremost, an innovative character. This means it must break new grounds and meet a challenge in its city, region or country.
The applicant must show how the innovation can be scaled up and used in a wider region of the country, neighbouring countries or across the continent.
* Impact: It must show a measurable and sustainable impact on health. It will be important to show not only that it supports, equips, protects and trains healthcare workers but that it is measurable, can be maintained and is, therefore, sustainable.
* Commercial viability: The innovation must be commercially viable; so, we have to see that it is a business proposition, that it can compete effectively with its competitors and make a profit.
To learn more, please visit africayounginnovatorsforhealth.org