Call for Applications: AYuTe Africa Challenge Nigeria ($20,000 Cash Prize)

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The AYuTe Africa Challenge Nigeria is an enterprise development program initiated by Heifer International and implemented by Enactus Nigeria to identify, nurture, and support innovative, relevant and technology-driven agric-centric enterprises to grow, scale and thrive.

Benefits

Compete for a chance to win a share of $20,000 in the AYuTe Nigeria Challenge.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must:

✓ Be aged 18-35 by the closing day of submission to the AYuTe Nigeria challenge

✓ Be a youth with innovative ideas focusing on the agriculture sector.

✓ Have ideas that are proven to solve social problems and are implementable, technically feasible, economically sound (affordable), and environmentally smart (eco-friendly).

✓ Hold Nigerian nationality with official ID (national identity card, international passport, or permanent voters’ card).

✓ Produce financial statements for the venture.

✓ Be the founder or co-founder of the enterprise represented in the competition and play an active role in its operations and leadership.

✓ Have no criminal record related to corruption, tax evasion, financial impropriety, felony or other offences.

✓ Have the potential for partnership and collaboration with other actors/stakeholders.

The company must have:

✓ Been registered/incorporated with the relevant government agencies in Nigeria

✓ The ability to scale and impact a large number of smallholder farmers, including recorded evidence of demonstrated impact on smallholder farmers’ revenue and/or operations

✓ The potential for job creation and poverty reduction

✓ Alignment with relevant national policies and international treaties (e.g SDGs)

✓ An identifiable technological innovation that addresses the following problems for smallholder farmers:

  • Smallholder farmer productivity
  • Smallholder farmer income
  • Labour intensiveness of operations
  • Resilience
  • Access to information
  • Strong competitive advantage

Timeline of Event

The application period will run from 17 August to 16 September. In September 2022, the first stage of the challenge will identify the top-10 agritech innovators and the second stage will identify the top-5 agritech innovators. The top three enterprises will be awarded cash prizes at a pitch and awards ceremony in October 2022.

Deadline – September 16, 2022

Click here to apply

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