Deadline: 2018-11-12 Award: €85,000 Open to: African startups*
The AFD Third Annual Digital Challenge is designed to promote entrepreneurial initiatives managed by women and/or men, tackling the challenges of women's inclusion and gender inequalities – whether social, economic, cultural or political – and leveraging digital innovation for their development.
Any start up with an innovative entrepreneurial initiative with the following qualification may apply:
a) demonstrating the existence of a legal form and having a proven activity on the African continent
b) owned by women and/or men, and having a positive impact on women's inclusion and the reduction of gender inequalities
c) leveraging digital technologies to amplify its impact
Applications must be submitted through the online application form, accessible on the first page of the website https://www.afddigitalchallenge.afd.fr/.