Catalysing and Scaling Innovation In Tanzania

CATALYSING AND SCALING Innovation in Tanzania: A review of approaches • INTRODUCTION
KUMI MEDIA
INTRODUCTION
Over the past decade, global efforts to
tackle some of the world’s biggest
development challenges have taken a
different turn. Whether seeking to reduce
the number of women dying in childbirth, getting
clean water to rural communities, or increasing
girls’ access to education, increasing numbers
of development initiatives are looking towards
innovation and technology for solutions that more
traditional methods of delivering development have
often failed to provide.
Funders such as the UK’s Department for International
Development (DFID), the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation, and the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID) have been at the
centre of this shift, introducing a raft of innovation
challenges, accelerators, and funds over the years
to encourage new responses to old problems.
More recently, both the development and private
sectors have begun to recognise the value of
working together to create services or products that
combine social purpose and commercial potential.
Above
Huria (left) is part
of CRS Tanzania’s
‘Youth-Led
Sanitation Business
Development’
programme in
Chunya, Mbeya,
pictured with her
mother and twins.
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