On the 18th – 19th May 2023 at the Kigali Convention Centre, Rwanda will have the official launch of its National Grand Challenges. This process will be facilitated by the Rwanda National Council for Science and Technology (NCST). The National Grand Challenges forms a part of the initiatives under the Office of Science, Technology, and Innovation (OSTI) with the aims to establish national financing mechanisms across the AU Member States to accelerate investments in R&D. Additionally, the National Grand Challenges programme promotes Africa-led scientific innovations to ensure transition to scale by awarding seed and scale-up grants to Africa's most impressive solutions.

Grand Challenges is a family of initiatives fostering innovation to solve key global health and development problems. Each initiative is an experiment in the use of challenges to focus innovation on making an impact (see the Grand Challenges fact sheet).