Deadline: 27- June- 2025
This innovation Challenge, led by the ILO in partnership with the Rwanda ICT Chamber, aims to support innovative solutions that enhance youth employment in Rwanda’s digital economy.
Innovate4DigiJobs is an innovation challenge designed to accelerate Rwanda’s digital transformation by empowering young innovators, fostering entrepreneurship, and creating decent employment.
Objectives
- Innovate4DigiJobs will foster social innovation and scale solutions that contribute to the creation of decent jobs for youth in Rwanda’s digital economy.
- To this end Innovate4DigiJobs is seeking innovative solutions that leverage digital technologies to promote decent job creation from learning institutions, cooperatives, social enterprises, employers’ organizations, trade unions and business development service providers.
Categories
- Innovate4DigiJobs seeks to promote innovative solutions that contribute to decent job creation for young people in Rwanda’s digital economy. They welcome applications from legally recognized non-profit entities and whose proposals demonstrate clear potential to empower youth through digital transformation.
- The types of innovations they seek fall broadly into two main categories:
- Skills for decent jobs in the digital economy
- Business development services for entrepreneurs in the digital economy.
Funding Information
- To implement their proposed projects, Innovate4DigiJobs participants can apply for financial support ranging from USD 10,000 to USD 50,000
Geographical Location
- Innovat4DigiJobs focuses on seven districts in Rwanda, namely: Nyarugenge, Gasabo, Nyagatare, Kayonza, Musanze, Rubavu, Rusizi, Ruhango, and Huye.
Eligibility Criteria
- Innovate4DigiJobs targets organisations and not individuals.
- To participate in Innovate4DigiJobs, organizations must meet the following mandatory requirements:
- Be a legally recognized non-profit organization with contractual and registered capacity, registered since at least 2023
- Located or operating in one or several of the following seven districts in Rwanda: Nyarugenge, Gasabo, Nyagatare, Kayonza, Musanze, Rubavu, Rusizi, Ruhango, and Huye.
- At not-for-profit organization qualifying to apply to this call could include:
- Cooperatives
- Social enterprises
- TVET and other learning institutions
- Employers’ or workers’ organizations
- Business Development Service providers
- Potential applicants are encouraged to partner with other organisations and submit a joint proposal. In the case of such partnerships, the application should be submitted by the lead applicant. In the proposal, applicants should clearly describe the roles and responsibilities of each organisation.
For more information, visit Rwanda ICT Chamber.