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Apply Now: $50,000 for Women’s Participation in ICTforAg Solutions

By Wayan Vota on September 25, 2023

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Increasing women’s participation in digital agri-food advisory services and programs improves gender equality and is a strategic approach to improving agricultural productivity, food security, and rural development in low- and middle-income countries. It leverages a significant portion of the agricultural workforce and contributes to broader social and economic development goals.

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Inspire Challenge 2023

The ICTforAg 2023 Inspire Challenge is a new Pay-for-Results program intended to increase women’s participation in digital agri-food advisory services and programs.

Five Challengers will be chosen and given six months to achieve the gender inclusion goal. All Challengers will be provided with a suite of technical support options, including human-centered design workshops, consultative meetings, and learning grants of up to 20,000 USD.

If the goal is achieved, each Challenger will be eligible to receive the final prize of 30,000 USD in June 2024. Challengers will be graded on:

  • Readiness: of the service/program, such as the size and type of the business model, will be judged to ensure it has reached a certain size of end-users, critically including producers/farmers.
  • Innovative approaches: of proposed methods to achieve the goal will be assessed in terms of their feasibility, creativity, and sustainability.
  • Verifiability: of a credible, robust, and third party-verifiable track record will need to show user profiles that include identity, gender, and contact information for the changes between November 2023 and April 2024.

Apply Now! Deadline is October 5, 2023

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Wayan Vota co-founded ICTworks. He also co-founded Technology Salon, MERL Tech, ICTforAg, ICT4Djobs, ICT4Drinks, JadedAid, Kurante, OLPC News and a few other things. Opinions expressed here are his own and do not reflect the position of his employer, any of its entities, or any ICTWorks sponsor.
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3 Comments to “Apply Now: $50,000 for Women’s Participation in ICTforAg Solutions”

  1. Respected all
    we are an Indian NGO, by name CENTRE FOR LEGAL CLINIC RESEARCH AND REHABILITATION WELFARE CHARITABLE TRUST.
    We are working to improve the living conditions of people in remote tribal areas of India. We have female partners. Our priority area is agriculture. Are we eligible for funding? isn’t it If we are eligible? How to contact you.
    With regards

  2. Apostle Adejumo Matthew Adetayo says:

    Iam keenly interested
    The Name of my NGO is BIGVI CHARITY FOUNDATION
    The Name of my Cooperative is
    BIGVI FARMERS COOPERATIVE MULTIPURPOSE SOCIETY
    ALL IN NIGERIA
    IAM ALSO AN AGRICULTURIST

  3. Moses Ismail says:

    We are a climate change Initiative, TCCI, an NGO based in Tanzania that empower communities through research, technology and training to tackle climate change through mitigation and adaptation solutions.

    We will apply