The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) Agricultural Innovation for Climate Resilience Program 2023

The Unified Countries World Food Program (WFP) Advancement Gas pedal sources, supports and scales striking new answers for disturb worldwide yearning and accomplish the Maintainable Improvement Objectives (SDGs).

The Unified Countries World Food Program (WFP) Advancement Gas pedal sources, supports and scales striking new answers for disturb worldwide yearning and accomplish the Maintainable Improvement Objectives (SDGs). The Rural Development for Environment Flexibility Program expects to help high-influence arrangements and agro-business visionaries tending to asset proficient cultivating in LMICs.

This gas pedal program is an organization between the WFP Development Gas pedal and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) and its Asset for the Advancement of Development in Farming (i4Ag), charged by the German Government Service for Financial Participation and Improvement (BMZ). The program will choose beginning phase adventures and arrangement suppliers who will get monetary, specialized, and strategic help from the WFP Advancement Gas pedal, and different accomplices. With the cooperation of capable people all around the world, we will actually want to drive environment strength and the assurance of normal assets, food security, further developed pay and work.

Eligibility:

• Your solution must be part of a legal entity located in at least one of the target countries (for-profit or social enterprise).
• The applicant organization must have a presence in the country of application and be locally established: country office or other permanent presence.
• Your innovation clearly addresses one or more priority issues related to building climate resilience in the agriculture and food sector in any of the target countries.
• Your innovation must be at least in the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) stage; or Proof of concept with a validated prototype.
• Your innovation has a verified potential commercial value and impact.
• The solution must have a committed founding team with at least 5 full-time employees.
• Applicants must be able to provide evidence that the value proposition has been validated by the user/customer.
• Initiatives should be in the process of developing a clear path to commercial viability (business model alignment).
• Solutions should have a potential plan to implement as part of the 6 to 9 month Sprint program.
• Innovations must replace existing or establish new routines and have a positive impact on one or more of the following aspects: food security, employment and income generation and/or climate resilience and conservation of natural resources.
• The beneficiaries of innovative solutions should be smallholder farmers, food processing companies, small and medium enterprises, consumers, youth and/or women.
• Startups must be able to demonstrate that they have a diverse, non-discriminatory, gender-balanced venture with proven leadership and entrepreneurial mindset and what the team’s vision is.
• Its beneficiaries prioritize initiatives that focus on promoting gender equality and empowering women through job creation or high representation of women in leadership positions.

Benefits:

• Selected teams will be invited to participate in a 4-day all-virtual WFP Innovation Bootcamp in July 2023.
• Selected startups will also be able to apply for the WFP Sprint Program, a 6 to 9 month accelerator program with access to:
• Support from the WFP Innovation Accelerator and related partners throughout their sprint.
• Access to a global network of relevant stakeholders in the field of mentoring and humanitarian, commercial and international development cooperation.
• Up to $150,000 in equity financing to implement a proposed growth plan.
• Solutions that have proven their concept, scale, and value for social impact may qualify for further funding and support in future programs or events in the WFP alumni community.

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