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.

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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

Go to World Food Programme (WFP) on airtable.com to apply

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