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Four sexual reproductive health products that made it into UNFPA’s iAccelerator programme
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has announced the 4 products that made it into the iAccelerator programme it organised with Nailab. They are Fluid, Sophie Bot, Imara TV and Deaf Elihu.
The programme will last for 4 months, and the entrepreneurs will be paired with experienced mentors, enrolled in business management and development training and will be granted access to KES 1 million in seed capital.
The startups were selected from the 10 finalists that were at the pitch event held at Nailab. The iAccelerator programme is an I.AM initiative that makes it easier for youths to talk about their sexuality, sex and sexual reproductive health. The initiative connects these youths with credible sources of information in safe environments free from stigmatisation.
A total of 92 applications were submitted for the program and each one had solutions and ideas that could promote youth sexual reproductive health and rights. According to the Head of Communications and Marketing at Nailab, Josephine Mwangi, “Its been an intense period for the team who have focused on mining and catalyzing innovative thinking by engaging with the best minds as we talk innovations on SRH. This has been an interesting and quite an unexplored theme and we have learnt a lot from the young people in the process.”
Source: techcabal