Making More Health brings together actors from the healthcare ecosystem, including social entrepreneurs, corporations, impact investors, government agencies, foundations, and local stakeholders, among others, to engage and collaborate on ways to increase access to healthcare for underserved populations around the world.
The Making More Health Business Accelerator, is a structured business growth program targeted at social entrepreneurs with innovative solutions in the health sector. The program offers two engagement phases.
Phase 1, called the “Pilot Phase”, runs for 12 months and focuses on supporting entrepreneurs to:
a) identify strategic challenges and/or opportunities related to the growth, sustainability and impact of their social enterprises
b) co-create and test relevant solutions.
Phase 2, called the “Scale-up Phase” also runs for 12 months and focuses on supporting participants to scale up successful solutions from the first phase of engagement. In both phases, participating entrepreneurs are provided with access to technical support from Boehringer Ingelheim employees, strategic networks, financial resources, and a platform to collaborate, learn and engage with fellow social entrepreneurs and other ecosystem actors.
Animal health
Human health
Focus areas
The accelerator broadly focuses on supporting social entrepreneurs with innovative solutions aimed at advancing access to healthcare in Sub-Saharan Africa. Solutions may be both in the animal or human health field.
Which countries are eligible?
Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Ghana.
Program Criteria
You should apply for the program if you have an innovative human or animal health solution that fits the description provided above and if you meet the criteria below.
Legal Entity: Company limited by guarantee, Limited liability company, NGO
Age: At least three years of operation
Sector: Human or animal health related.
Country of operation: Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda.
Revenue: At least USD 100K in annual sales revenue.
Impact: Evidence of social impact with clearly defined impact metrics
Benefits
- Knowledge Access
- Technical expertise
- Strategic networks
- Financial and Investor access support
- Business Collaboration
Application Deadline – 13th January 2023
