WFP Innovation Accelerator
Relevent Country: Cote d'Ivoire
Type of work: Project and Program Management
Last Date: 24-09-2023
The Digital Green Innovation Acceleration Programme (DGIx) is searching for high-impact digital ventures and projects solving some of the most pressing environmental challenges in selected countries.
The Digital Green Innovation Acceleration Programme (DGIx) is a programme by the WFP Innovation Accelerator and the Smart Development Fund (#SDF), and powered by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the European Union (EU).
Digital transformation can play a major role in addressing climate change and biodiversity loss in low- and middle-income countries. A “twin transition” approach recognises this large and untapped role of technology and data to drive sustainability: instead of thinking about digitalization (using technology) and sustainability (taking care of the planet) separately, a twin transition strategy believes that these two changes can work together. It states that the technologies that help the environment and the ones that enable digital transformation, can both help them create stronger, more flexible, and better economies.
The programme will select ventures, solution providers and consortiums who will receive financial, technical, and methodological support from the WFP Innovation Accelerator, #SDF, and other partners. Together with the best and brightest minds globally, they will be able to leverage the digital-green synergies to ultimately improve the lives of vulnerable communities.
What they offer?
The selected ventures and solutions will be:
What they are looking for?
Resilience: anticipating, preparing, and recovering while incurring minimal damages. According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), climate-resilient pathways are development trajectories of combined mitigation and adaptation to help avoid “dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”. They are looking for ventures and consortiums that are developing solutions for climate change resilience, ideally but not limited to one of the following functional areas:
Geographic Focus
Eligibility Criteria
Please take the following factors into consideration before submitting your application to the programme:
Source: https://innovation.wfp.org/digital-green-innovation-acceleration-programme