About this Award.

Big 4 Innovation
Award.

This Award recognised and awarded innovations that are outstanding and innovative within the Big 4 Agenda (Affordable Healthcare, Affordable Housing, Food Security, and Manufacturing).

Who qualifies for this Award?

Eligibility Criteria

For the Big4 Innovation Award, the focus is on the four sectors of the National Big 4 Agenda.

Affordable Healthcare

Affordable Housing

Food Security

Manufacturing

If you have an innovation that is creating solutions in the above categories you can go ahead and make sure you qualify for the Award from the general eligibility below.

The innovator OR founder of the innovation MUST BE a Kenyan citizen

The innovation MUST BE registered in Kenya

The innovation must have been in operation for AT LEAST one year

The innovation SHOULD NOT have received an award from NIA before

The innovation SHOULD have a clearly demonstrable product or service with an existing market

The innovation SHOULD have a profile available online with appropriate information

The innovation SHOULD have an active and permanent team of two or more members

Benefits of the Award

For each of the four categories in the Big 4 Award (Affordable Healthcare, Affordable Housing, Food Security, and Manufacturing) there was a winner, a first runner up and a second runner up who each received certain benefits at the KIW2021.

Winner

KES 500,000

Benefits:
  • Pitching at KIW 2021
  • 1 delegate ticket to KIW 2021
  • 1 exhibition booth at KIW 2021
  • A trophy

1st Runner Up

KES 200,000

Benefits:
  • Pitching at KIW 2021
  • 1 delegate ticket to KIW 2021
  • 1 exhibition booth at KIW 2021
  • A placard

2nd Runner Up

KES 100,000

Benefits:
  • Pitching at KIW 2021
  • 1 delegate ticket to KIW 2021
  • 1 exhibition booth at KIW 2021
  • A certificate

Winners of the Big 4 Agenda Category

VacciBox

A portable solar fridge that safely stores and transport vaccines, drugs, and blood for transfusion to remote, hard to reach and off-grid rural communities

#Affordable Health

Learn more

MedSource Group

MedSource reduces overall costs while promoting quality across the entire pharmaceutical supply chain

#Affordable Health

Learn more

Mucho Mangoes

MedSource reduces overall costs while promoting quality across the entire pharmaceutical supply chain

#Food Security

Learn more

AfyaBoost Nutritional Healthcare

An innovative venture that produces and supply fortified nutritional flour to immunocompromised people in Kenya.

#Food Security

Learn more

Worldgates Ecofuel

A social enterprise that enables renewable energy solutions to environmental and societal challenges

#Manufacturing

Learn more

Briquettes from Prosopis Tree

Converting invasive prosopis to clean fuel usage

#Manufacturing

Learn more

MjengoApp

A patented multi-vendor construction app, built with builders in mind, designed to save the cost of construction procurement, and improve the lifespan of your buildings

#Affordable Housing

Learn more

Yalof Aquaculture

Rearing large number of fish indoor in a controlled environment.

#Food Security

Learn more

Uhuru K1 Satellite

The first kenyan made telecommunication satellite

#Manufacturing

Learn more

Medical Oxygen Production Equipment

Creating oxygen with purity above 80% employing the pressure swing adsorption technology.

#Affordable Health

Low- cost building blocks

#Affordable Housing