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Kenyan innovator Esther Kimani receiving the 2024 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation Award

Impact of the Africa Prize to date

One innovator can change a community; a network can transform a continent.

The Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation identifies and accelerates engineering solutions to critical challenges across the continent. From renewable energy and clean water access to food security and employment creation, Africa Prize entrepreneurs are tackling Africa's most pressing sustainable development needs.

Launched in 2014, the Africa Prize stimulates, celebrates and rewards innovation and entrepreneurship across sub-Saharan Africa. Working across more than 40 countries, the Prize is open to engineers and innovators with solutions across all engineering disciplines and provides a unique eight-month period of tailored training and mentoring, culminating in a showcase final event.

Help us secure the future of the programme and continue supporting engineering talent and solutions that transform African communities.

Opportunities to support the Africa Prize

The impact of Africa Prize

Why your support matters

Your support will directly help some of Africa’s brightest engineering and technology innovators to address some of the biggest developmental challenges. With your help, together we can provide:  

• continuous support for small businesses with grants, advice, networking and mentoring opportunities;  
• access to free resources, such as communications support, digital skills training, and legal support; 
• opportunities to pitch to and engage with investors; 
• sector-specific networking opportunities for alumni to engage with their peers; 
• a pipeline of female entrepreneurs who are driving change through our feeder programme, the Africa Innovation Fellowship, striving for gender parity in each selected shortlist. 

Principal partner

• The Shell Centenary Scholarship Fund 
• UK Government's Global Challenges Research Fund 
• Ezrah Charitable Trust 

Significant donors

• Malcolm Brinded CBE FREng 
• Hilary Mercer FREng 

Donors

We are grateful to all our donors including those who wish to remain anonymous

• Charles Betts CB FREng 
• Nicholas Donofrio FREng 
• Charles Holliday FREng 
• Professor Brian Launder FREng FRS 

• Reverend Dr Ian McEwan FREng FRSE 
• Aleida Rios FREng 
• Dr Richard Wylde FREng  
• Professor Zhibing Zhang FREng