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Most practices in: Kenya (13)
Born in Nairobi during Kenya's 2008 post-election violence, Ushahidi's open-source crowdsourcing platform has since been deployed 150,000+ times in 160+ countries, and …
Since 2006, Kounkuey Design Initiative has co-designed 11 flood-resilient public spaces with Kibera residents on reclaimed dumpsites, installing 520m of flood protection …
Kenya's first citywide Special Planning Area designation (2017) gave 100,560 households on 689 acres of Nairobi's Mukuru settlements a co-produced governance mechanism; …
A university-NGO consortium GPS-mapped Nairobi's ~130 informal matatu routes and 3,000+ stops, producing the first standardised (GTFS) map of an informal transit …
Kenya's national informal-settlements upgrading programme has prepared over 23,000 land titles and delivered roads, drainage, water and sewer connections that the government …
Nairobi's first major open tech innovation space, founded in 2010 with Omidyar Network and Hivos backing, catalysing Kenya's 'Silicon Savannah' developer and …
A three-NGO consortium trains and mentors microentrepreneurs with disabilities, backed by an in-kind growth-kit and procurement links. 2,467 reached (84% disabled), self-reported …
Launched in Nairobi in 2012 under the World Bank's infoDev programme, KCIC incubates and finances climate-tech SMEs. A 2016 World Bank review …
Africa's first tech hub, launched March 2010 in Nairobi by Erik Hersman (Omidyar Network/Hivos). Now a CcHUB subsidiary. 450+ startups trace origins …
After Kenya's 2010 devolution, Makueni County built a six-tier participatory budgeting process from village to county level. By FY2016/17, World Bank data …
Kenya's national digital-jobs programme has trained ~391,000 youth since 2016 via 101 empowerment centres and mentorship, linking them to online freelance/BPO work …
Founded in 2013 inside the University of Nairobi's School of Computing and Informatics, C4DLab runs staged startup incubation and, from 2016, partnered …
An RCT with 372 young female microentrepreneurs in Nairobi's Dandora slum found mentorship from a local successful entrepreneur raised profits 20% over …
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