Health Entrepreneurship (HENT)

Impact of Entrepreneurship on Africa

As African health sectors grow, health entrepreneurship has immense potential to accelerate that growth and support better health outcomes by creating self-sustaining market solutions that close gaps in the health sector, meet community needs, generate revenue, and provide resilience and stability, thereby creating significant employment opportunities.

In addressing these challenges, HENT equips and empowers aspiring entrepreneurs with essential skills and knowledge, mentorship opportunities, and direct financial support, such as seed funding, fostering a robust culture of entrepreneurship for their success.

Within an African-led framework where health entrepreneurship and health innovation are encouraged and sufficiently supported, aspiring entrepreneurs are then able to bring their transformative, locally generated ideas to fruition and create companies, products, services and health-related jobs that strengthens health sectors. 

Our health entrepreneurship network is deeply rooted in the unique local contexts of each partner, empowering entrepreneurs to launch and grow businesses. These businesses leverage indigenous knowledge, medicines, and practices in healthcare, create market solutions for burgeoning health sectors, and generate revenue, thus creating jobs in primary and various other healthcare areas.

By providing youth with entrepreneurial knowledge and skills, financial support, tools, access to materials, access to markets, technology, experience and exposure, they will be able to achieve entrepreneurial self-efficacy and significantly contribute to the Health Sector Network’s intertwined goals of strengthening economies through robust health sectors and employing Africa’s youth in stable, dignified jobs.