World Health Organization Africa Innovation Marketplace

Many innovations in Africa face a huge bottleneck that hinder them from transition to scale because many countries lack innovation-friendly policies to support establishment of a robust innovation ecosystem.  In order to complement efforts by African innovators, the World Health Organization Africa Regional Office (WHO AFRO) has developed a virtual marketplace that seeks to connect different international and local players in the innovation ecosystem to identify and support innovative ideas emerging from the African continent.  The major aim of the Innovation Marketplace is to identify promising health innovations, delineate critical path and work with different stakeholders including funders and governments to help bring these innovations to scale.