Up to $100,000 Grants are available for Youth Adaptation Challenge 2023 – Apply now

The African adaption Acceleration Program (AAAP), a strategic partnership initiative between the Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA) and the African Development Bank Group, aims to raise $25 billion to expand and expedite climate change adaption efforts throughout Africa.

Youth Adapt: Empowering Youth for Entrepreneurship and Job Creation in Climate Adaptation and Resilience is one of the program’s four flagships. Through the Africa Youth Adaptation #YouthADAPT Challenge, AAAP is expanding youth innovations for climate change as part of the Youth ADAPT program.

This cohort exclusively focuses on female-owned businesses that are developing innovations and technology from the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) for climate adaptation in Africa, with a particular focus on tackling gender inequality in their solutions.

AI, big data analytics, VR, robotics, IoT, quantum computing, blockchain, additive manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and fifth-generation wireless are a few examples of 4IR technologies.

In Africa, these ought to be the kinds of answers that are applied to actual climate problems. The Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF), which is administered by the African Development Bank, is providing funding for this call for applications.

Eligibility

Age: The entrepreneur needs to be in the 18–35 age range.
Nationality of the founder: Either the founder actively participates in the business’s activities or the founder is of African descent.
Geographical location and legal registration of the business: The company needs to be registered lawfully in Africa.
Profitability: For the previous two years, the company has to have made a profit.
Impact/Climate Adaptation: The company needs to show how it directly affects resilience and climate adaptation.
Women’s Only businesses run by women are eligible; women should own 51% of the shares.
Industry: Needs to be utilizing technologies from the fourth industrial revolution (4IR).