World Food Program (WFP) Digital Health Innovation Accelerator for Course

Eligibility Criteria

• Your organization must be an established legal entity (for-profit, non for profit, social enterprise) for at least 2 years.
• Your solution should demonstrate adherence to the principles for digital development.
• The proposed solution should be or work towards creating a digital public global good (i.e., follow open standards, open-source or open data approaches).
• The developed or implemented solution should preferably use data and information exchange mechanisms based on global standards (e.g. openHIE).
• The solutions should be interoperable with other existing systems, including, but not limited to national health management information systems.
• The applicant organization should already have a presence in the country of implementation (country office or other permanent presence, subsidiary, long-term operations, or partnerships in the country, ideally with the relevant Public Health government agencies), and would ideally have the buy-in from national, regional, or local governments.
• Your innovation ideally addresses one or more of the specified priority country-specific topics, or, if not, it can still contribute towards building and supporting pandemic preparedness capabilities in aforementioned countries.
• Your innovation should have a demonstrated proof-of-concept with initial traction and a clear path to scale (capacity to be adapted, expanded, replicated or scaled).
• Your solution should be able to demonstrate inclusion of, or focus on, supporting or increasing access for: women, marginalized or underserved communities, mobile populations, people with disabilities, and high-risk groups vulnerable to COVID-19.

Offered Benefits

• Hands-on support & access to network: Selected ventures will be invited to participate in a fully virtual WFP Innovation Bootcamp in November 2022.
• Funding, coaching & mentorship: Selected ventures will be invited to apply to the WFP Sprint Programme – a six-month acceleration program with access to up to $250,000 in equity-free funding, coaching, and mentorship support from a global network of relevant partners in the public health space.
• Scaling: Mature solutions that have proven their concept, scale, and value for social impact may qualify for further funding and support.

Application Process