Deadline: 5th November, 2023
The African Development Bank Group and the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) are jointly implementing a strategic partnership program, the Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program (AAAP), aimed at mobilizing $25 billion to scale up and accelerate climate change adaptation actions across Africa.
One of the four flagships under this program is the YouthAdapt: Empowering Youth for Entrepreneurship and Job Creation in Climate Adaptation and Resilience. Under the YouthADAPT program, AAAP is scaling up youth innovations for climate action through the Africa Youth Adaptation #YouthADAPT Challenge
This cohort targets only female-owned enterprises working on Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies and innovations for climate adaptation action in Africa and addressing gender inequality in their solutions.
Eligibility
- Age – The entrepreneur must be between the ages of 18 to 35.
- Citizenship of founder – The founder must be of African nationality or the founder must be playing an active role in the operations of the enterprise.
- Geography and legal registration of the company – The business must be legally registered in Africa.
- Profitability – The business must have generated profits for the last two years.
- Impact/ Climate adaptation – The business must demonstrate a direct impact on climate adaptation and resilience.
- Gender Only female-owned enterprises are eligible – 51% of shareholding should be female.
- Industry – Must be within the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) technologies.
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