Climate Change – Africa Opportunities (CCAO) and its partners are looking for approaches, startups, and local initiatives from young green entrepreneurs, women, and indigenous communities carrying knowledge (traditional and or modern), new ideas and offering initiatives and or likely to offer innovative indigenous or technological services, solutions to improve African resilience to the challenges of climate change.
To this end contribute to the promotion and defense of environmental justice and the reduction of poverty in a perspective of environmental protection, biodiversity, and rational management of natural resources in Africa.
Fields of application: What kind of innovation are we looking for?
Because climate change is a vast subject, we reduce our scope to the 6 intervention themes below:
1.) Community Resilience
2.) Urban Resilience
3.) Water Pollution
4.) Communication and Environmental Education
5.) Environmental Justice
6.) Conservation and Resilient Management of Natural Resources
Participants Must
1.) Have the nationality of an African country at the time of their registration.
2.) Be over 18 years of age at the time of registration.
3.) To have new ideas, startups, and initiatives offering and or likely to offer services, indigenous and/or innovative technological solutions to improve African resilience to the challenges of climate change.
4.) Have been incorporated as a non-profit, for-profit, or hybrid organization, or have a tax sponsor.
5.) Fluent in English and / or French (the winners may be involved in activities that require a good command of English or French).
Evaluation Criteria
1.) Impact
2.) Innovation
3.) Financial and Operational Viability
4.) Stimulate change agents
5.) Growth and Leadership Potential
Prizes and Benefits
For all eligible participants:
1.) Obtain feedback on their initiatives from Climate Change-Africa Opportunity (CCAO) and its partners;
2.) Obtain internal connection opportunities from Climate Change-Africa Opportunity (CCAO) and its partners;
3.) Be considered as potential candidates for acceleration and co-creation opportunities of Climate Change-Africa Opportunity (CCAO) and its partners;
4.) Participants’ projects can be integrated into Climate Change-Africa Opportunity (CCAO) and its communication campaigns, with the general public (after participant’s authorization), and will, therefore, benefit from wide visibility.
Submission Period
From May – July 2020
Publication of winning initiative
September 2020
Awards Ceremonies
October 2020
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