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The Standard Bank Tuksnovation Innovation Challenge 2026 is an impact-driven accelerator programme designed to support high-potential entrepreneurs in building scalable, sustainable, and market-ready businesses. Now in its 2026 edition, the programme has evolved to offer a more curated cohort, broader sector inclusion, and strengthened post-programme development to ensure long-term business success.

The Docusign Foundation’s “Agreements for Good” programme provides grant funding to support multi-stakeholder collaborations that address complex global challenges through structured agreements, governance models, and shared accountability mechanisms.

Unlike traditional funding that focuses on project delivery, this programme specifically invests in how organisations work together, funding the design and implementation of agreements that enable durable, cross-sector collaboration.

Funding Focus Areas

The Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) Fund is a global funding programme that supports innovative, evidence-based solutions with the potential to improve millions of lives. The fund operates as an R&D engine for development, combining risk-tolerant capital with rigorous evidence and scaling pathways.

DIV’s core objective is to identify, test, and scale cost-effective innovations that deliver measurable social impact particularly in low- and middle-income contexts.

Funding Structure (Tiered Model)

The Home Grown Solutions (HGS) Accelerator Africa 2026 is a Pan-African acceleration programme designed to support high-potential, locally rooted ventures driving innovation in healthcare systems strengthening and climate resilience across the continent.

Led by the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) and supported by JICA, with implementation partners including Villgro Africa and BCG, the programme targets scalable African solutions addressing systemic challenges.

Programme Focus Areas

1. Healthcare Ventures

The Innobooster Programme, administered by Innovation Fund Denmark, provides co-financing support for high-risk, knowledge-based innovation projects led by Danish small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), including startups. The programme aims to accelerate the development of innovative products, services, or processes that can strengthen company growth while delivering societal impact in Denmark.

Funding Structure

Innobooster offers:

About the Fab City Awards

The Fab City Awards is an annual global recognition and funding programme that celebrates initiatives combining design, technology, and civic participation to drive real urban transformation. Now in its 2026 edition, the Awards focus on the theme of Collective Action for Regenerative Futures moving beyond experimentation to demonstrate how community-driven efforts can shape genuine transitions in cities and regions around the world.

About the Due Diligence Fund

The Due Diligence Fund (DDF) is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), as part of the Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains Initiative (SASI). Now in its fifth round, the DDF has already supported 30 projects across four previous rounds since 2022.

FCI4Africa — Fair food and trade systems for Africa through food convergence innovation is a Horizon Europe-funded project responding to the growing demand for sustainable, fair, and just food trade between Africa and Europe.

About the Grant

MetaMeta, on behalf of ZOA, has opened a Call for Proposals for the SIPRA Challenge Fund – Large Grant Facility, part of the Strengthening Inclusive Partnerships for Smallholders in Rainfed Areas (SIPRA) programme. SIPRA is a four-year initiative funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and implemented by a consortium of four partners: ZOA, World Relief, SOS Sahel Sudan, and Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation (WCDI), with technical assistance provided by MetaMeta for agribusiness and challenge fund management.