The Deepening Youth Unemployment Crisis in Africa Occasioned by Covid-19 Pandemic:

What Options Available for the Rescue?
In-Country National Competition (October 17-November 20, 2020)
International Competition for the Winners in Nigeria, West Africa
December 2 – 4 (Wednesday to Friday), 2020

About YoBIC
As part of our Youth development program in ARUA, CoE-USD, Day-3 of our 2020 international Conference
Program has been fully dedicated to our cardinal program for the African Youth to secure an opportunity to
pitch their designed innovation for seed-fund. The International Finals shall happen in Lagos, Nigeria on December 3-4, 2020.
YoBIC is an innovation capacity building program for the African youth of participating countries in the PRAC4-YUSA Project, to compete for the Business Seed–fund of GBP3,000 through winning a business and innovation
competition challenge that focuses on solving African problems. Solutions are expected from the following Five
(5) areas of focus; Agriculture, Health, Circular Economy (i.e. Waste Management, Recycling etc), Infrastructure
(i.e. Transportation, Construction etc) and Financial Inclusion (i.e. Fintech, Rural / Gender Financial Inclusion,
E-Commerce etc)

Required Deliverables and Timelines

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Guidelines for Expression of Interest

Interested Students/Youths who are willing to participate in this challenge should contact the following persons in their country of origin (Kindly note that only 5 Teams are allowed in each country):

Nigeria: University of Lagos, Nigeria: Dr. Sunday Adebisi:- sadebisi@unilag.edu.ng and Dr. Ayodele Shittu:- ishittu@unilag.edu.ng

South Africa: University of Cape Town (Prof. Abimbola Windapo:- abimbola.windapo@uct.ac.za); University of Kwazulu Natal ( Prof. Kesh Govinder:- GOVINDER@ukzn.ac.za)

Kenya: University of Nairobi, Kenya (Prof. Jackson Maalu:- jmaalu@uonbi.ac.ke and Dr. Joy Mueni:- jmueni@uonbi.ac.ke)

Ghana: University of Ghana, Accra (Dr. Charles Ackah: – cackah@ug.edu.gh and Dr. Pricilla Baffour :- ptbaffour@ug.edu.gh)