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AFRICA HEALTH COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH FUND 2025

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Application Deadline: February 19, 2025 (12PM GMT)

LOCATION: Canada

The Africa Health Collaborative (Health Collaborative) is a multistakeholder partnership dedicated to preparing diverse young people for the meaningful work of transforming health and well-being in Africa, through contextually appropriate and sustainable primary healthcare systems. 

ELIGIBILITY:

All proposals must be led by an Early Career Researcher from a Health Collaborative member institution (See Appendix 1 for the definition of ECR by each institution) and can be bilateral (2 ECRs between two Health Collaborative member partners) or multilateral (three ECRs between three or more member partners). Proposals must also include participation of masters, doctoral or post-doctoral trainees. Eligible applicants may only lead one application (Further application requirements for applicants at each institution can be found in Appendix 2). 

If you do not have a co-applicant from a Health Collaborative member institution, your application will be shared publicly in a repository for you to identify potential co-applicant(s) to apply for the Fund. 

External collaborators (including researchers from other universities internationally, or those working in non-academic contexts such as community organizations, government, NGOs) cannot lead an application but can be involved in the proposed activities, where the benefit of their involvement to the collaboration is justified in the proposal. 

Proposals may include targeted research support such as joint workshops, researcher exchanges, and the formation of research exchange groups between Health Collaborative member institutions.

Joint projects will commence from June 1, 2025 for a maximum of 18 months.

BENEFIT:

Bilateral projects are eligible to receive up to $22,000 USD – with each institution awarding up to $11,000 USD to investigators at their home institution.  (Multilateral proposals will be scaled up to $11,000 USD per institution). 

The funding provided is intended to support expenses including but not limited to costs of travel (ECRs, Post-Doctoral Fellows, research associates, graduate student researchers) between the institutions, and costs associated with research, workshops and meetings

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TEFXUNICEF BEGREEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAMME (2025)

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Application Deadline: Monday, March 31, 2025

LOCATION: Multiple Regions

This initiative is designed to provide evidence on opportunities for youth entrepreneurship in a circular and green economy—with a focus on waste management—while addressing the triple planetary crisis, reducing inequalities, and creating sustainable livelihoods for themselves and their peers. The Green Initiative will contribute evidence on innovative development models to drive growth and employment for youth in Africa and beyond.

ELIGIBILITY:

The Programme is open to all citizens of the Selected Countries (Kenya, Morocco, South Africa, Nigeria, Senegal) who are aged 18 years and above. The submitted age of all Applicants must be supported with government approved means of identification.

All Applications must be for a Green Business Idea or a Business that must be for profit, focused on one business area only, and must be the original idea of the Applicant.

The Business or Business Idea must not be for an illegal or unethical purpose.

The training curriculum has been designed to segment entrepreneurs based on the demonstrated capability and knowledge. The tailored training courses educate and provide capacities for you to:
understand the concept of growing your business to overcome the challenges faced by entrepreneurs across the African continent.
Gain in-depth knowledge to Build a circular and green economy through less consumption, better consumption, and the creation of systemic change at community, national and global levels.

To ensure a transparent application process, all applicants will need to have a valid government issued ID and indicate their name on the application form on TEFConnect exactly as it appears on the ID card.

PLEASE NOTE: TEFConnect can only be accessed by a single email account. It is important that all applicants register with an email to which they have regular access.

The Entrepreneurship Programme identifies outstanding African entrepreneurs with start-ups or business ideas with the potential to grow. The TEF Entrepreneurship Programme will be delivered in different phases as listed below:

Application Phase
Training &Mentorship Phase
Business Plan Submission Phase
Pitching Phase
Seed Capital Phase

BENEFIT:

All TEFXUNICEF BEGreen selected participants who have completed all the above steps, registered their business & opened a bank account will be paid the seed capital of US$5,000 or its equivalent. An entrepreneur who has received funding and acknowledged receipt of payment will be issued a TEFXUNICEF BEGREEN CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION AND ACHIEVEMENT.

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