Deadline: 11-Sep-22
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is accepting applications for Digital Health Innovation Accelerator Programme in search of scalable digital solutions using open standards and approaches towards the creation of global goods.
The solutions must have a focus on building and supporting pandemic preparedness capabilities and speeding up demand-driven vaccine distribution and the recovery of communities and health systems in Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Innovation Accelerator sources, supports and scales bold new solutions to disrupt global hunger and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Benefits
The WFP Innovation Accelerator has a track record of organizing over 40 flagship innovation bootcamps, supporting over 400 teams to rapidly refine their innovations, field testing over 100 projects, and bringing disruptive innovations to scale, reaching 9 million people in 2021 alone.
- Hands-on support & access to network
- Selected ventures will be invited to participate in a fully virtual WFP Innovation Bootcamp in November 2022.
- Funding, coaching & mentoring
- Selected ventures will be invited to apply to the WFP Sprint Program – a six-month acceleration program with access to up to US$ 250,000 in equity-free funding, coaching, and mentorship support from a global network of relevant partners in the public health space .
- Scaling
- Mature solutions that have proven their concept, scale, and value for social impact may qualify for further funding and support.
What they’re looking for?
They are looking for digitally-powered solutions that can contribute to building pandemic preparedness capabilities in selected countries: Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
- Ghana
- Monitoring and case management software
- Supporting micro-planning of national and rural vaccine delivery
- Ivory Coast
- Case management and contact tracing tools
- Vaccine delivery and planning
- Online training/e-learning platform for health professionals
- Sierra Leone
- Strengthening of laboratory systems to enable validation of infectious disease incidence
- Online training/e-learning platform for health professionals
- Strengthening traveler enrollment schemes.
- Togo
- Online training/e-learning platform for health professionals
- National-level administrative and human resource (HR) management tools
- Digital epidemiological prognostic modeling tools to enable monitoring and organized responses based on the visualized data
Eligibility Criteria
- Your organization must be an established legal entity (for-profit, non-for-profit, social enterprise) for at least 2 years.
- Your solution should demonstrate adherence to the principles for digital development
- The proposed solution should be or work towards creating a digital public global good (ie, follow open standards, open-source or open data approaches).
- The developed or implemented solution should preferably use data and information exchange mechanisms based on global standards (e.g. openHIE).
- The solutions should be interoperable with other existing systems, including, but not limited to national health management information systems.
- The applicant organization should already have a presence in the country of implementation (country office or other permanent presence, subsidiary, long-term operations, or partnerships in the country, ideally with the relevant Public Health government agencies), and would ideally have the buy-in from national, regional, or local governments.
- Your innovation ideally addresses one or more of the specified priority country-specific topics, or, if not, it can still contribute towards building and supporting pandemic preparedness capabilities in aforementioned countries.
- Your innovation should have a demonstrated proof-of-concept with initial traction and a clear path to scale (capacity to be adapted, expanded, replicated or scaled).
- Your solution should be able to demonstrate inclusion of, or focus on, supporting or increasing access for: women, marginalized or underserved communities, mobile populations, people with disabilities, and high-risk groups vulnerable to COVID-19.
For more information, visit https://innovation.wfp.org/digital-health-innovation-accelerator-program