ELIGIBILITY:

Your organization must be an established legal entity (for-profit, not-for-profit, social business, NGO, INGO). 

Your organization should have a presence or willingness to build a presence in one of the four countries of implementation (Jordan, Kenya, Nigeria or  Yemen). This could take the form of a country office or other permanent presence, subsidiary, long-term operations or partnerships in the country.

Your innovation addresses one or more of the priority innovation areas related to pressing challenges faced in the humanitarian space of the country of implementation. 

Your innovation should have reached the minimum viable product stage and is gearing up for scale. 

Your innovation should have a clear pathway to scale and a potential plan to implement during the six-month Sprint with the available funding. 

Applicants are expected to have strong intentions to collaborate with relevant humanitarian stakeholders, build relationships with CGIAR country offices, and connect with the innovation ecosystems.

The applicants should demonstrate a clear need for research and development for the conceptual and commercial development of their innovation.

BENEFIT:

They offer to boost innovations:

Six-month Sprint acceleration programme combining business-oriented training, mentoring, and science-based technical assistance from the WFP Innovation Accelerator

Access to the research network of CGIAR, the world’s largest publicly funded research-for-development organization

In-country strategy workshop to kick off implementation 

US$30,000 equity-free grant for each of the winning innovations with a proven sustainable business model and scaling plan

Exposure to national and international funders

Post-acceleration support