Opportunities

Accelerate Africa is inviting applications for Cohort 5 of its startup accelerator programme designed to support bold and visionary African founders building scalable businesses that solve Africa’s biggest challenges.

The 12-week accelerator programme is tailored for early-stage startups across

The GTR+ MEA Awards 2026 are now open for voting, recognising the institutions shaping the trade finance landscape across the Middle East and Africa.

Organised by Global Trade Review (GTR), the awards celebrate leadership, innovation, market influence, and impact across the regional trade finance

The Innovator Trust has launched the Youth Entrepreneurship Program (YEP) 2026, inviting young digital and technology innovators from the Northern Cape to apply for an opportunity to develop innovative technology-driven solutions addressing real community challenges.

The programme is specifically

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Mozambique has officially launched the 2026 Call for Proposals under the Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF-SGP), inviting eligible organisations to submit innovative, community-driven environmental and climate action projects.

The

The Hinrich Foundation is inviting researchers, scholars, universities, think tanks, and policy institutions to submit proposals for its 2026 International Trade Research Program.

The programme supports high-quality research projects that advance understanding of global trade issues and contribute to

The World Food Prize Foundation is calling for nominations for the 2026 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, endowed by The Rockefeller Foundation.

The award recognises exceptional, science-based achievements in international agriculture and food production by individuals under

The iF SOCIAL IMPACT PRIZE is an international recognition and support programme by iF Design that celebrates implemented projects delivering measurable social and environmental impact aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The programme supports organisations and

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

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

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

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

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. Funded by the European Commission under Grant Agreement Number 101182485