Deadline: 11 August, 2020
The African Union (AU), through the African Governance Architecture (AGA), and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), has launched the Democracy and Governance in Africa Youth Innovation Challenge 2020.
Youth innovators, innovation hubs and incubation centres across the continent are invited to participate in the innovation challenge.
The challenge calls for existing innovations that are making impact in the structural prevention of conflict by addressing issues of democracy deficit, lack of good governance and contribute to the promotion and protection of human rights.
Benefits
- Selected applicants will receive an opportunity for an accelerator training to help develop their ideas further, for expansion and greater impact
Eligibility
- Applicants should be between the ages of 18 and 35
- Innovator should be based in Africa
- African abroad can apply but innovation in focus should be focused or based in Africa
- Other relevant thematic areas that contribute to the AU’s ‘Silencing the Guns’ theme of the year
- The idea or innovation should have been implemented/tested with a level of success/impact but have room for improvement, replication or scale up at national, regional or continental level
- Innovation must reflect the mainstreaming of women and gender equality
- Female innovators are highly encouraged to apply
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