81272905-Designing and Implementing an Investment Readiness Programme for Digital Agtech and Foodtech Start-ups in African French Speaking Countries

GIZ implements the project ‘Scaling digital agriculture innovations through start-ups’ (SAIS) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The purpose of SAIS is to increase the investor readiness of selected African start-ups in the foodtech and agritech sector that have the potential to scale rapidly. For this purpose, the project provides tailor-made company development (e.g. improving business models, product development, customer relations, financial management) through an Investment Readiness Programme (IRP) and facilitates access to additional investment and business opportunities. As a result, more digital innovations are to arrive in the hands of end-users in Africa and will create more income-saving or income-generating effects. From 2022 onward, SAIS will also offer a francophone Investment Readiness Programme (f-IRP), which is the subject of this call for expression of interest. The f-IRP shall focus only on start-ups from African French-speaking countries. As the start-up landscape in francophone Africa is not as much developed as in anglophone?Africa,?the f-IRP will focus on selecting start-ups with proven and tested digital solutions that are?adapted to the francophone African context and reality.