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NextBillion publishes free ads for business development opportunities available to enterprises working in low- and middle-income countries. These may include accelerators, competitions, funding opportunities, incubators, requests for proposals, and training courses. To submit an ad, click on the “Submit BizDev Opportunity” button above.

RFP / BizDev
The World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking qualified organizations to implement the second stage of a family farmer capacity-building program in Cusco, Peru. With an indicative budget of USD 341,800, the initiative aims to strengthen family farming, improve food safety and quality standards, enhance market access, and support the implementation of Peru’s Public Procurement Law No. 31071.
Organization: The World Food Programme (WFP)
Location: Cusco, Peru
Opportunity Type:
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06/19/2026
RFP / BizDev
This Grand Challenge seeks cost-disruptive tools for diagnosis and screening, defined as devices that amortize capital to near-zero incremental cost and consumable $1-class tests that materially reset the cost curve in LMICs while meeting real-world deployment constraints.
Organization: Gates Foundation
Location: Within South Africa and similar LMIC settings
Opportunity Type:
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06/23/2026
funding / bizdev
FCI4Africa Open Call 1 (OC1) aims to provide financial support to research and technology stakeholder. The budget per sub-project is up to €50,000.
Organization: FCI4Africa
Location: Africa
Opportunity Type:
Apply By:
06/30/2026
funding / bizdev
develoPPP Ventures is aimed at young companies, whose innovative business model improves living conditions in a developing or emerging country and who are planning to scale up. Via a matching-funds model, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) provides non-dilutive capital of 100,000 euros for suitable growth investments.
Organization: develoPPP Ventures, DEG Impulse gGmbH, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Location: Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania
Opportunity Type:
Apply By:
06/30/2026
accelerator / bizdev
The Open Payments Accelerator is a 4-month pilot accelerator program designed to support early-stage founders, developers, and innovators building interoperable financial solutions for underserved communities using the Interledger technology stack. Selected teams may receive up to USD $50,000 in milestone-based grant funding to support concept validation, technical PoC development, and demo preparation.
Organization: Interledger Foundation
Location: Global
Opportunity Type:
Apply By:
06/30/2026
competition / bizdev
WeXchange 2026 Women STEMpreneurs Competition seeks to identify the most innovative and dynamic women entrepreneurs in Latin America and the Caribbean in the process of raising capital to connect them with potential funding opportunities.
Organization: IDB Lab
Location: Latin America & Caribbean
Opportunity Type:
Apply By:
06/30/2026
RFP / BizDev
The Cost-disruptive novel screening and diagnosis tools program under GCI seeks transformative novel tools or approaches or devices and ultra-low-cost solutions for screening and/or diagnostics prioritizing near point-of-care and low-incremental-cost formats that can meet real-world operational constraints and really disrupt the accessibility and availability landscape.
Organization: Gates Foundation
Location: India
Opportunity Type:
Apply By:
07/01/2026

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NextBillion curates and publishes business development opportunities available to enterprises working in low- and middle-income countries. These may include accelerators, competitions, fellowships, funding opportunities, incubators, requests for proposals, and training courses. Our staff sources many of these items, but readers can submit items of their own. To submit an opportunity, click on the “Submit BizDev Opportunity” button above.
 
Please note: NextBillion is not the organizer of these opportunities, we do not perform in-depth vetting of individual opportunities or organizations, and we source many of them online. So plan to conduct your own due diligence before applying.

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