Partnership Opportunity For Private Sector, Academia And Government: A triple Helix Approach To Respond To COVID 19

Public health experts predict that social distancing with periods of total lockdown may continue for the next 18 months before a vaccine is ready. Furthermore, the outbreak could come in waves rather than in one single event.

Countries should therefore prepare for a far-reaching health, economic and social crisis. Developing countries will need to develop home grown solutions given that the traditional crisis response actors are focused on the domestic front.

Considering the magnitude of this challenge, VK proposes a triple helix approach where government, academia and the private sector join hands to support local innovations that can be scaled across the continent in response to the COVID 19 outbreaks. Villgro Kenya is inviting potential partner organization to come and join hands with us in this initiative.

Call for Applications: COVID-19 Global Response Solutions

VK invites startups with technologies and innovations that could help in treating, testing, monitoring or other aspects of the Coronavirus outbreak. Key themes include.
·  Registry-based follow-up of critically ill patients.
·  Emergency response
·  Medical devices and commodities such as quality affordable ventilators
·  Sanitizer manufacture
·  Oxygen Concentrators
·  Respirator asks and drug delivery system
·  Risk communication, social dynamics and public health response.
·  Supporting healthcare system response including infection prevention and control
·  Best practice to protect health care workers.

If you are a company or a startup with a proven solution kindly reach out to admin@villgrokenya.or.ke.with your pitch deck .

If you know any deserving innovator that might benefit from the above support, kindly refer them to us on admin@villgrokenya.or.ke. The deadline for this call for application is April 15th 2020