Catalysing and Scaling Innovation In Tanzania

CATALYSING AND SCALING Innovation in Tanzania: A review of approaches • Voices from the ecosystem
Left
A secondary
school student,
who is part of
the ‘Menstrual
Hygiene
Management
For Her’
programme
by Dorcas Aid
International
Tanzania, at
home.
KUMI MEDIA
many of these innovations would not be able to
scale and grow. HDIF adapted the programme
to focus more on ecosystem building activities;
by connecting partners, engaging policymakers
and strengthening networks which either did not
exist or were weak. This support has been made
possible by the in-country team, who are fully
embedded in the ecosystem and have helped to
facilitate new collaborations between different
actors – including intermediaries such as hubs, the
government, and innovators – and assisted their
access to resources.
HDIF helped to catalyse connections between
innovators in the education portfolio where no
formal network existed which resulted in several
new collaborations. For example, HDIF grantee
Ubongo's learning content has been made available
on the tablet computers used by Silverleaf Academy’s
(another grantee) network of pre-primary schools
and through Equip-T, a DFID-funded programme
operating in over 4,000 primary schools throughout
the country.
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