Amua Accelerator Zanzibar

Accelerating Sexual Reproductive Health Innovation in Zanzibar

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Amua

Accelerator Zanzibar

AMUA Accelerator Zanzibar is the fourth cohort of AMUA Innovation Accelerator focusing on accelerating innovative SRH solutions emerging from Zanzibarian youths. This will be the first health innovation accelerator program for the Isles. The goal is to identify, mentor, accelerator and invest on ideas, products and solutions that will address Zanzibar SRH challenges.

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Challenge Statement

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Innovative Solution

How might we come up with innovative solutions to impact Zanzibarian youths at the individual level by providing age-appropriate right information?

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Knowledge and Service

How might we support the availability of proper knowledge and services to Zanzibarian youth on puberty and menstrual health?

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Exploitation and Abuse

How might we support youth joining their early careers with Sexual exploitation and abuse in employment sectors including tourism, health, and education?

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Marriage and Pregnancy

How shall we increase awareness to the community on social-cultural issues leading to teenage marriages and pregnancies?

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Involvement and Awareness

How might we support the increase in male involvement and awareness of Sexual reproduction health and rights?

Project

Objective

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Co-creation

Cocreating, identifying and prioritizing with key stakeholders in Zanzibar on SRH challenges facing the community.

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Community

Carrying community engagement activities to create enough awareness of the intervention for a maximum youth, SRHR stakeholders and general public participation.

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Investment

Identifying, selecting, mentoring, accelerating and investing in innovative solutions to tackle SRH challenges emerging from Zanzibaris youths.

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Implementation Process

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Challenge Definition

About 30 Participants From Key Stakeholders

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Community Engagement

Info Session Media Tour Stakeholders Visit

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Call for Application & Ideas Selection

About 20 Ideas Collected From Unguja & Pemba

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Idea Hackathons

Host 6 Hackathons 3 in Each Side Of The Isles

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Bootcamp

20 Best Ideas Selected To Attennd

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Acceleration

Supporting 8 Business Solutions Comprised Of 4 Teams From Each Bootcamp

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Demo Day

An Event Attended By Key Stakeholders Also Served As a Judging Of The Winning Team

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Seed Funding

Award The 5 Best Winning Teams With Seed Funding Worth 5000 USD

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