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Kijiji Yeetu

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Our tools for effecting change

Our strategies for development are built on three pillars and one method: listen locally, research honestly, and build with the community.

Our project milestones

Since 2011, we have achieved a great deal through initiatives anchored on three pillars: digital transformation, multistakeholder dialogue and communities of practice.

More than 37,500 lives have been impacted through digital literacy, community networks and locally led development. Those results are why we continue with our mission of empowering rural communities with the knowledge, skills and mindsets for sustainable growth.

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Digital Transformation

Technology on the community's terms

We apply information and communication technologies to the problems communities name themselves — digital skills, affordable connectivity, online safety and locally led innovation.

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Multistakeholder Dialogue

Everyone at the same table

Participatory baselines, public participation and structured conversation bring residents, government, civil society and the private sector into one room — and one plan.

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Communities of Practice

Local people keep the network alive

Net wardens, smart village champions and grassroots engineers learn together, maintain the network and pass their skills on to the next village.

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Last mile connectivity

The final stretch, community-owned

Reaching the villages that commercial networks leave behind — a community-owned last mile that brings schools, offices, markets and homes online in Ugunja.

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Climate Action & Sustainability

Growth that lasts

Applying Kijiji Yeetu's community model to climate resilience — using connectivity, local knowledge and sustainable growth so villages can adapt on their own terms.

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Community of Practice

Local people keep the network alive

Net wardens, smart village champions and grassroots engineers learn together, maintain the network and pass their skills on to the next village.

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ICT Girls*

Girls at the centre of digital change

Digital skills and confidence for girls in Ugunja — learning, safety and opportunity through the community network, so girls can take part fully in the digital economy.

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Research & Innovation Accelerator / Launchpad

From idea to enterprise

A launchpad for local ideas — turning research, community knowledge and practical innovation into services and enterprises that work in Ugunja.

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How change happens

A method, not a template

Every village is different. The sequence is not. We repeat the same disciplined cycle until the community can run it without us.

01

Listen

We start with consultations and public participation, not a project design. Communities name the problem and the priority.

02

Research

Local feasibility studies and skills-gap analyses test what is actually possible — infrastructure, cost, demand and local capacity.

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Build together

Residents, government, civil society and technology partners co-design the network, the training and the services it carries.

04

Hand over

Net wardens, champions and local action groups take on maintenance, budgeting and governance so the work outlives the project.

The questions we work on

Pertinent questions worth exploring

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Network Empowerment

Digital safety (Last mile)

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