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Grand Challenge to achieve Food Security and Nutrition in Africa: Call for Innovators and Organisations

Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator Program

Deadline: 4-Dec-20

The Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA) is inviting proposals to address a new Grand Challenge: Promoting and facilitating innovative solutions to achieve Food Security and Nutrition in Africa.

AESA is created through a partnership between the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) in partnership with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).

This call is focused on the SDG2 targets with the overall objective of enabling and fostering African innovators and researchers to work in local and global collaborative partnerships on the ambitious but achievable goals of accelerating knowledge generation, developing and deploying interventions and innovations that will advance the progress towards ending hunger, achieving food security and addressing malnutrition in all forms.

This call hopes to promote quality research and innovation to address these critical gaps and is a culmination of engaging leading stakeholders through a survey between July and August 2020 on the African continent to identify top priority areas towards securing sustainable food systems and addressing malnutrition.

These grand challenge innovation grants will be issued and administered under Grand Challenges Africa (GC Africa), a programme implemented in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Goal

Key Areas

Projects that will apply and enable adoption of new technologies, innovations and policies in at least one of the following key areas to:

Funding Information

What they are looking for?

Projects that will apply and enable adoption of new technologies, innovations and policies in at least one of the following key areas to:

Examples of what they will consider funding for- innovations that:

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria for Success

Criteria for success will include solutions that:

Evaluation and Selection Criteria
  • Proposals will be submitted in accordance with the Rules and Guidelines. The evaluation consists of a three-stage formal assessment by GC Africa involving an initial eligibility check, external international expert review and final committee decision.
  • Some of the variables that will be assessed during the initial evaluation include; completeness of the application documents, relevance and response to the call requirements, application from an African institution, with the grantee either a citizen or resident of the host country. Only proposals meeting eligibility criteria will be submitted for expert review for content and quality. on the basis of:
    • Innovation;
    • Scientific and technical excellence;
    • Judicious use of project resources.

For more information, visit https://www.aasciences.africa/calls/grand-challenges-africa-innovation-phase-1-seed-grants-round-12-request-proposals-food

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