Reckitt Fight for Access Accelerator 2023 for African Start-ups

Reckitt Fight for Access Accelerator 2023 for African Start-ups. Apply below.

When is Application Deadline: 31st July 2023

Tell Me About Award: By leveraging the power of our people and our commercial acumen, we scale innovative, locally designed approaches that enable access to health and hygiene and create long-term, sustainable impact. By working with social businesses, our investment will live over and over again as the enterprises grow, continuing to create jobs and economic empowerment, enable access and drive positive health outcomes.

We believe access to high quality hygiene, health and nutrition should be a universal right, not a privilege. That’s why we have created the Fight for Access Accelerator, where Reckitt will catalyse innovative social enterprises to help tackle the world’s greatest problems and strive for a fairer society.

We need to work in partnership and play to our strengths. We’re applying our expertise, the power of our people and the reach of our purpose-led brands, to work with expert partners and enable access in communities all over the world. By bringing people together and changing behaviours, we can build long-term sustainable change. It’s how we will measurably impact 10m livelihoods by 2030, in our pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world.

Type: Entrepreneurship

Who can Apply? The “Fight for Access” Accelerator program aims to find and foster social enterprises that bring innovations and solutions to the main challenges of access to adequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in pursuit of prevention and reduction of diseases such as diarrhoea, cholera, and malaria in Nigeria.
To be able to do this, we seek businesses, startups, entrepreneurs, innovators, companies and civil society organisations with commercial solutions (products and services) that, in their application, cause changes and positive impacts on the lives of the Nigerian population.
Among the segments of actions possible to address these challenges are:

Innovation and decentralisation

1. New technologies and cleaner, regenerative, and cost-effective solutions for access to water
2. New and cost-effective solutions for sanitation services
3. New and easy-access solutions for better hygiene practices and concepts for their distribution
4. New and cost-effective solutions to prevent vector proliferation.
5. Methodologies for efficient maintenance of water, sanitation and hygiene solutions Information, education & community management
6. Methodologies and social technologies for information and education on water, sanitation and hygiene
7. Methodologies and social technologies for community management of existing and new water, sanitation and hygiene solutions
   Solutions and businesses that prioritise the following beneficiaries for WASH in pursuit of prevention and reduction of diseases such as diarrhoea, cholera, and malaria are also encouraged to apply:
   ● Women and girls
   ● Population in remote and rural areas
   ● Population in informal settlements

Which Countries are Eligible? Nigeria (for now)

Where will Award be Taken? Nigeria

How Many Awards? Not specified

What is the Benefit of Award?

• Expert mentorship from Reckitt’s people, specialists in health and hygiene and a wide range of business functions
• Seed funding to invest in growth to scale the business and drive positive health outcomes
• Impact accelerating bootcamps, delivered by expert partners, tailored to unlock specific barriers to growth

How to Apply: In partnership with Yunus Social Business, we will be supporting Social Enterprises accelerating access to water, sanitation and hygiene.

Find out more and apply to be a part of the Accelerator here

Visit Award Webpage for Details