• Capacity Development Provider
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Innovation Accelerator sources, supports and scales high-impact innovations to achieve Zero Hunger. Based in Munich, Germany, it provides WFP employees, entrepreneurs and startups with funding, hands-on support and access to WFP’s global operations. Through the Innovation Accelerator, WFP is leveraging unprecedented advances in digital innovation—such as mobile technology, artificial intelligence, big data and blockchain—and new business models to transform the way WFP serves vulnerable communities across the world.
  • Stages of Support

    • Idea
    • Start-up
    • Early
    • Growth
    • Mature
  • Investment Instruments

    • Grant
  • Sectors of Focus

    • Agriculture & Food
    • Supply chain services
  • Services

    • Run an accelerator program
    • Invest into funds targeting SGBs or entrepreneurs
  • Nonfinancial Services

    • Capacity development services
  • Capacity development services

    • Access to networks and partners
    • Value/supply chain development
    • Talent development/HR (including leadership)
    • Operations and technology development or adoption