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Research
Local feasibility studies and skills-gap analyses that test what is actually possible in a village.
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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 that work in Ugunja.
Research & innovation
Local ideas, tested and launched
Every Kijiji Yeetu initiative starts the same way: listen locally, research honestly, and build with the community. The accelerator and launchpad gives that cycle a home for new ideas.
Research is not an end in itself here. It is the step that tests what is actually possible — infrastructure, cost, demand and local capacity — before a service is launched.
Our strategy
Listen, research, build together, hand over: the same disciplined cycle, applied to new ideas, until the community can run them without us.
What this looks like
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Innovation
Practical innovation built around the equipment, skills and conditions a village can actually maintain.
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Launchpad
Support to turn a tested idea into a service or enterprise that serves Ugunja and can sustain itself.
An idea from Ugunja, for Ugunja
If you have an idea, a research question or a service to launch with the community network, talk to the team.
The other pillars
Read our researchDigital Transformation
We apply information and communication technologies to the problems communities name themselves — digital skills, affordable connectivity, online safety and locally led innovation.
Multistakeholder Dialogue
Participatory baselines, public participation and structured conversation bring residents, government, civil society and the private sector into one room — and one plan.
Communities of Practice
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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Be part of the change
Foundations, companies and individuals all have a role to play. Here is how to join.