January 14, 2025: Opportunites Bolstering Poverty Alleviation, Women in Tech, Climate, and the Arts

NextBillion’s BizDev page publishes business development opportunities available to enterprises working in low- and middle-income countries. These may include accelerators, competitions, funding opportunities, incubators, requests for proposals and training courses. Our editors source most of these items, but readers are also welcome to submit items for consideration on the page.

We’ve highlighted the most recent BizDev opportunities below. Visit our BizDev page to see all the opportunities.

Poverty Alleviation

Innovations Against Poverty Challenge Fund

• Organization: Innovations Against Poverty
• Location: Cambodia, Ethiopia, Uganda, or Zambia
• Apply By: 01/31/2025

Innovations Against Poverty (IAP) Challenge Fund offers matching grants ranging from €50,000 to €200,000 to businesses ready to scale their inclusive innovations. Learn more

Women in Tech

WiDEF in India

• Organization: Women in the Digital Economy Fund
• Location: India
• Apply By: 01/20/2025

WiDEF invites local Indian entities to apply for funding to scale a solution that significantly enhances the digital inclusion of women, improving their livelihoods, economic security, and resilience. The fund is open to small or medium for-profits entities as well as non-profits with a valid FCRA. Learn more

Climate

Green Accountability Accelerator

• Organization: Climate Collective
• Location: Global
• Apply By: 03/24/2025

Climate Collective and the World Bank’s Global Partnership for Social Accountability (GPSA) have joined forces to leverage innovative green technology solutions to improve citizen engagement, transparency, and accountability in climate finance. Learn more

AI ? Climate Accelerator

• Organization: Climate Collective , The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
• Location: Global
• Apply By: 02/03/2025

The Climate Collective is using a proven early-stage accelerator playbook to put AI to work for climate and nature. Learn more

Creative Economy

STARTS Prize Africa

• Organization: STARTS

• Location: Africa
• Apply By: 03/05/2025

The STARTS Prize Africa is offered to honour the initiatives made at the?intersection of arts, science, and technology that strive towards a positive social, humanitarian, economic, environmental, or political impact and promote diverse and sustainable society.?The STARTS Prize Africa prize money amounts to € 30.000. Learn more

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