USAID’s MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership: India-Yash has launched the ‘Yash Entrepreneurs Program’, an incubator and accelerator program to support innovative market-based models to leapfrog outcomes in Family Planning (FP) and Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH). Anchored by USAID, this multi-donor project has been designed to contribute to the achievement of India’s family planning goals. The program aims to shape the social enterprise ecosystem in this space - while leveraging partnerships with key public and private sector players in India.
The MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership: India-Yash project is led by Jhpiego, a Johns Hopkins University affiliate and partners. Yash Entrepreneurs Program is being implemented in partnership with Villgro.
The initiative will help scale 20 investment-ready enterprises across 2 cohorts by providing them with access to intensive mentoring by technical and business experts, strategic partnerships, technical assistance support, and other benefits that will help them scale their reach to ‘Bottom of Pyramid’-focused markets.
Yash Entrepreneurs Program will focus on supporting social enterprises operating in the following key fields of intervention:
Enterprises having innovation-based products or services that:
Enterprises having innovation-based products or services that:
Enterprises having innovation-based products or services that:
Enterprises having innovation-based products or services that:
Enterprises having innovative products or services that integrate SRH/FP into:
Enterprises having assistive & accessible technologies and inclusive solutions that:
Selected social enterprises will get access to acceleration support to gain access to markets through capacity building, training, mentoring and networking. The startups will receive support to enable greater impact on ground with a focus on under-represented groups, including women & girls in remote sections of the country.
15 February, 2023 to 17 March, 2023
18 March, 2023 to 31 March, 2023
01 April, 2023 to 30 April, 2023
If you are a social or technological enterprise working to solve the problems and fill the gaps in the Sexual and Reproductive Health space (details here), then apply now
Parameters we will use to evaluate your business
Please reach out to us for queries on cohort selection process, support to incubatees, partnerships, investment and financing opportunities for our cohort enterprises.
This event is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the terms of the Cooperative Agreement #7200AA20CA00002, led by Jhpiego and partners. The contents are the responsibility of MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.
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