At UNDP Innovation Center, we are currently executing a mapping exercise for digital platforms/marketplaces that facilitate intra-african trade. This work ties into our involvement in deploying the AfCFTA.

We are looking to engage these types of digital platforms/marketplaces;

A. Facilitate National Trade - Your platform enables trade across more than one state in Nigeria

B. Facilitate Intra-african trade- Your platform enables trade between Nigeria and other African countries

C. Facilitate Cross-Border trade - Your platform enables trade between Nigeria and other countries outside Africa

Please if your startup falls within this category, kindly fill this form: https://bit.ly/DigitalEnablingTrade

Thank you.

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Nigerian Digital Platforms Enabling National, Cross-Border & Intra-Continental Trade

UNDP recognizes the central role that digital tools and technologies play in socio-economic transformation. Whether this is by increasing access to social services, improving capacities for public service delivery or transforming patterns of logistic

African Women Entrepreneurs Program- Reimagined

Application Deadline: January 21, 2024

Award: USD$50,000 – USD$100,000 to each of the selected winners

The United States African Development Foundation (USADF), in partnership with the United States Department of State Africa Bureau, invite applications for the 2024 African Women Entrepreneurs Program-Reimagined grant.

This is the second application cycle for this grant and only applicants from the following countries may apply: Namibia; Mauritania; Senegal; Cote d’Ivoire; Malawi; Uganda; and Zambia.

Visit https://usadf.gov/AWE_RFA to apply.

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USADF Off-Grid Energy Challenge

Deadline: January 31, 2024

USADF is excited to request proposals for the USADF Off-Grid Energy Challenge. Proposals are invited from eligible African off-grid energy companies.
Selected enterprises will receive funding in the form of grant capital of up to $250,000.

To be considered for the Challenge, applicants must be majority African-owned and managed private companies and organizations (including non-profit and not-for-profit) registered and operating in any of these countries in Africa (Benin, Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo (South Kivu), Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritania, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia).

To learn more and apply, visit https://usadf.gov/OGECEng

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