ABOUT AMUA Acceleration Program
Amua accelerator is a six-month mentorship driven acceleration project supporting young entrepreneurs with seed funding, training and skills development. The project is geared to generate innovative solutions to sexual and reproductive health related challenges.
The project is implemented with United Nation Population Fund (UNFPA) in collaboration with Sahara Sparks.
Challenge Statements
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How might we come up with innovative solutions to impact youths at the individual level by providing the right information? How can we control the distorting SRH information from different sources e.g media sources and uninformed peers?
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How may we break cultural barriers that hinder men’s participation in SRH issues? How might we come up with innovative solutions to promote co-creation and community inclusivity when it comes to address SRH challenges?
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How might we come up with innovative ways or tools to help youth access health facilities when they want to get services about their body changes and how to manage themselves? How can we come up with an innovative solution that will address issues of Service provider’s attitude towards youths looking to receive ASRH services?
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How can we find innovative ways to advocacy for proper laws and policies on SRH issues? How can we come up with innovative ways to change community perception (positive) towards SRH issues ? How can we strengthen effective parent-child communication on ASRH issues (social norms)? How do we innovatively inform policy makers on SRH issues?
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How do we ensure inclusivity on accessibility of SRH services to different social classes of the community? How do we reach people living at the bottom of the pyramid (BoP) with proper SRH information and services?
Trainers, Mentors and Judges
A diverse team of experts in Ideation, User Centered Design, Team Building, Managing Finances and Administration, Research and Development, Products and Services Development, Business Model Development, Legal, IP and Company Registrations, Communication Pitching and Soft Skills plays the role of working with the entrepreneurs in training, judging and mentoring the ideas comming from the hackathons and individual applications as per project specifications.
The team includes Successful Entrepreneurs, Government Personnel, Innovation & ICT Expert consultants, Sexual and reproductive Health Experts and Youth and Gender Experts
Mentor
Dr. Cuthbert Maendaenda
graphic educator
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Creating a Process for Visual Storytelling.
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Leveraging the Best Workflow Technology to Enhance Your Content Marketing
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Dec 2013 - Present: CEO at TemPlaza
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Dec 2012 - Dec 2013: CEO at Sunland ,. JSC
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Dec 2011 - Dec 2012: CTO at Elite JSC
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Sep 2008 - Dec 2011: CIO at YOS ,. JSC
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Sep 2006 - Sep 2008: Web Developer at Joomlord
Mentor
Prudence Masako
Jaffrey Haye
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Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
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Building a Demand Generation Program that Works with Marketing Automation
-
Creating a Process for Visual Storytelling.
-
Leveraging the Best Workflow Technology to Enhance Your Content Marketing
-
Email Marketing: 10 Things You Are Not Doing (and it’s killing you!)
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Dec 2013 - Present: CEO at TemPlaza
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Dec 2012 - Dec 2013: CEO at Sunland ,. JSC
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Dec 2011 - Dec 2012: CTO at Elite JSC
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Sep 2008 - Dec 2011: CIO at YOS ,. JSC
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Sep 2006 - Sep 2008: Web Developer at Joomlord
Mentor
Dr. Elizabeth Mapela
Robert Van Doe
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Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
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Building a Demand Generation Program that Works with Marketing Automation
-
Creating a Process for Visual Storytelling.
-
Leveraging the Best Workflow Technology to Enhance Your Content Marketing
-
Email Marketing: 10 Things You Are Not Doing (and it’s killing you!)
-
Dec 2013 - Present: CEO at TemPlaza
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Dec 2012 - Dec 2013: CEO at Sunland ,. JSC
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Dec 2011 - Dec 2012: CTO at Elite JSC
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Sep 2008 - Dec 2011: CIO at YOS ,. JSC
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Sep 2006 - Sep 2008: Web Developer at Joomlord
Mentor
Davide Piga
Jessica Palt
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Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
-
Building a Demand Generation Program that Works with Marketing Automation
-
Creating a Process for Visual Storytelling.
-
Leveraging the Best Workflow Technology to Enhance Your Content Marketing
-
Email Marketing: 10 Things You Are Not Doing (and it’s killing you!)
-
Dec 2013 - Present: CEO at TemPlaza
-
Dec 2012 - Dec 2013: CEO at Sunland ,. JSC
-
Dec 2011 - Dec 2012: CTO at Elite JSC
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Sep 2008 - Dec 2011: CIO at YOS ,. JSC
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Sep 2006 - Sep 2008: Web Developer at Joomlord
The Acceleration Program Timeline
Challenge definition day
February 21, 2017
Stakeholders from the Sexual Reproductive Health convene with an expert facilitator to identify problems and generate specific challenge statements that will be used as the basis for the competition. The participants will include a cohort of public and private sector representatives, e.g. government officials, academics, business owners, universities, etc. The general topic will be on Sexual Reproductive Health. Ideally, we are expecting representatives from the UNFPA team come up with a shortlist of challenge statements and share this shortlist with stakeholders attending the challenge definition day. The stakeholders then validate the challenges and may help settle on 1-3 thematic areas.
Challenge launching ceremony
March 22, 2017
The challenge launching ceremony is the official launching ceremony of the project where by all the key stakeholders of the project convene in one area. The event will be structured in a form of an information session to introduce the project to the general public. The event will be covered by both digital and traditional media houses ensuring maximum reach to the general public.
Bootcamp
May 22 - June 4, 2017
The best 10 teams receive further intensive training, education, coaching, and mentorship to refine and develop their ideas and/or products. The last day of the bootcamp is a pitching day to select ideas for the acceleration.
Call for idea submissions
March 22 - May 12, 2017
The registration is open for the submission of ideas. The ideas can be submitted by individuals and teams but individuals are advided to form teams.
Hack wekeend 1
May 13 - May 14, 2017
Borrowing elements from the globally established Startup Weekend architecture, applicants will form teams, develop solutions, and pitch ideas that respond to the challenge statements. Participants will be drawn from the local pool of innovators, including students, sexual reproductive health experts, computer scientists, engineers, developers, designers, business and social entrepreneurs, etc. For those who have their teamsalready they will be left intact.
Hack wekeend 2
June 3 - June 4, 2017
Borrowing elements from the globally established Startup Weekend architecture, a broad range of participants will form teams, develop solutions, and pitch ideas that respond to the challenge statements. Participants will be drawn from the local pool of innovators, including students, computer scientists, engineers, developers, designers, business and social entrepreneurs, etc.
Acceleration
June 5 - July 30, 2017
The best 6 teams receive further mentorship support from mentors to develop their minimum viable products. The 6 teams will be the finalists during the demo day. 4 teams from the 6 teams will receive the seed fund.
Demo Day
August 10, 2017
Teams present their ideas and the best 1-3 teams are then identified.
OUR PARTNERS
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Monday - Friday 8:00 AM - 05:00 PM -
Visit us at our office
Victoria Noble Centre, 4 Floor, Office 406
New Bagamoyo Road,
Dar es salaam, Tanzania -
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