The Grand Challenges Botswana is launched in partnership with the Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA) - an initiative of the African Academy of Sciences, the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) and Global partners. It is a unique but collaborative initiative under the Grand Challenges Africa (GC Africa) initiative. GC Africa is an AESA programme that awards seed and full grants to the continent’s most impressive innovators to promote Africa-led scientific innovations that help countries better achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The minister of Tertiary Education, Research, Science and Technology, Dr Douglas Letsholathebe said they are at a five-year implementation plan in which they target supporting key projects that will scale commercially, locally and regionally, and building a portfolio with potential to create jobs. “Launching Grand Challenges Botswana today, gives me renewed hope that we are on course towards achieving our national Vision 2036 aspirations,” he said.
