The platform enabled them to build awareness of their activities and provided the teams of civic space advocates, CSOs, technologists, and cross-sectoral partners an opportunity to share ideas to enhance their innovative projects.
The 2018 and 2020/21 Social Innovation Challenge(SIC) winners took part in a two-day Learning and Evaluation (L&E) Lab, allowing the participants to share their experiences developing and implementing individual scale-up strategies.
The SIC winners showcased their project successes, challenges, lessons learned, and proposed scale-up solutions.
The platform enabled them to build awareness of their activities and provided the teams of civic space advocates, CSOs, technologists, and cross-sectoral partners an opportunity to share ideas to enhance their innovative projects.
The Lab which kicked off on 14 February, provided an opportunity for the participants to capture lessons learned and best practices during the project implementation period.
The We-Account Social Innovation Challenge (SIC) 2018 was launched on 28 August 2018.
The challenge sought to support the five best innovative ideas across Africa around Transparency, Accountability, and Natural Resource Management.
Five winners received a grant of USD10,000 to scale up their initiatives.
The five winners were Dream Factory Foundation from Botswana, Freshmarte from Nigeria, Kinara for Youth Evolution from Tanzania, Tobongisa from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and SEMA from Uganda.
On the other hand, the We-Account: Social Innovation Challenge 2021(SIC 2021) was launched on 1 September 2020, guided by the Hub’s mission of protecting, strengthening, and expanding civic space across Africa through promoting Human Rights, Government Accountability, and Transparency.
The eight winners were COMNETU from Uganda, Courtlex Technologies from Zimbabwe, Constitutional Rights Awareness and Liberty Initiative from Nigeria, Legal Hub from Uganda, Grassroots Development Initiatives Foundation from Kenya, Haki Nawiri from Kenya, Help Central from Nigeria, and POVO Africa from Zimbabwe.
Meanwhile, four Africa Innovation Festival Demo Jam winners took part in a three-day Innovation Lab that commenced on 7 February.
In partnership with I4C Latin America and the Caribbean Hub, they participated in a complete design-thinking framework with tools session.
The objective of the co-creation exercise was to help the winners solve complex challenges, develop innovative solutions, and assimilate them into existing realities.
The Innovation Labs are spaces of creative learning in which CSOs, entrepreneurs, activists, and other social actors work together to design an innovative solution to a social problem.
I4C Africa Hub held its first Africa Innovation Festival over three weeks from November to December 2021 around accountability, transparency, and natural resource management.
Four out of eight candidates were selected as winners during a Demo Dam competition held during the festival.
Innovation Officer, LAC Hub Victoria Rodriguez, facilitating one of the co-design sessions.© I4C-Africa Hub.
The candidates got an opportunity to present an idea in a short 5-minute demo around the three themes and will receive a grant of USD 1,000 to scale up their efforts.
The demo jam winners are Noble Missions for Change Initiative from Nigeria, Justice for Widows and Orphans from Zambia, Population and Development Initiative from Tanzania, and Netpap Global from Kenya.