Starts 13 September 2010. (this programme has ended)
"We would like to see true models of partnership between the NGO and private sectors as opposed to profit-driven philanthropy ...the Pepal programme presents an exciting new concept and opportunity."
Richard Ssewakiryanga, Executive Director of Uganda National NGO Forum
Innovation in Uganda
The Innovation in Uganda Programme, developed in collaboration with Professor Harry Barkema, brings its Innovation Series to sub-Saharan Africa. The programme pairs professionals from across the globe with Ugandan non-profit organisations to devise new, market-driven approaches to HIV, malaria and women's health in Uganda.
The programme starts on September 13, 2010 in Uganda’s capital Kampala, with an intensive hands-on, three day workshop delivered by LSE’s Professor of Innovation and Management, Harry Barkema. During the workshop, participants will explore how to build economically sustainable and scalable business models that address the needs of women, children and marginalized communities in Uganda. Participants will then work together, remotely and face-to-face, over six months to refine, test and implement their projects before coming together again in Kampala in March 2011.
The partners will work on a wide range of initiatives including:
- Creating a business model and communications strategy for the introduction of the first reproductive health voucher scheme for family planning in Uganda.
- Developing models to improve the distribution chain for life-saving anti-malarial combination treatment.
- Exploring ways of introducing mobile phone technology to support the delivery of health services.
- Developing and piloting market based mechanisms to generate income for rural women living with HIV.
- Developing, documenting and communicating market-enhanced models for ‘community systems strengthening.’
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Training
The interactive training leads participants through the latest theory of business model innovation. By the end of the workshop participants will have:
- Identified new value propositions underpinning sustainable and scalable business models
- Developed an implementation/action plan, and explored how networks and outsourcing could be used to improve their business models
Benefits
- An opportunity to bring about change in some of Uganda’s poorest communities
- Leading-edge training in business innovation
- Practical experience in a challenging and unfamiliar environment
- Increased ability to innovate and problem solve
- A chance to network with like-minded and talented individuals from across the globe
"Thank you for opening this world to me... it’s all thanks to Pepal’s vision that we are going through this amazing journey.”
Banu Golesorkhi, Pepal participant on the Innovation in India Programme
The Programme
Who?: Professionals who are committed to working with new people in different environments.
Duration: Six months
Innovation Workshop 1: 13 September - 16 September 2010 in Kampala, Uganda
Innovation Workshop 2: 26 April - 29 April 2011 in Kampala, Uganda
Commitment: Can be combined with a full time job. Minimum 2 weeks of support between the workshops.
Fee
£3000, to include:
- Selection of non-profit organisations to secure high-quality projects and partners
- Two bespoke training modules
- Accommodation during the training
- Continuous support from the Pepal team and local consultants
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Non-profit Partner Organisations
Marie Stopes Uganda
Marie Stopes Uganda (MSU) is Uganda's largest private reproductive health and family planning organisation, and is renowned for providing a wide range of high quality, affordable and client-centred services. MSU has approximately 25% of the modern contraceptive market share in Uganda; most of this is delivered in hard-to-reach rural and urban slum areas through mobile clinical outreach teams. In 2009, MSU provided general medical health services to over 223,334 men, women, young people and children.
The National Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS
The National Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (NACWOLA) was founded in 1992 by 3 HIV positive women. The network was founded in response to the desperate lack of information available to HIV positive women at the time, which propagated a profound sense of isolation.
Today NACWOLA promotes positive living for women with HIV and AIDS in Uganda through the provision of psycho-social support, economic empowerment and advocating for access to essential services including treatement. The main beneficiaries are women living with HIV and AIDS and their immediate families, especially children infected and or affected by HIV and AIDS. The organisation has 30 branches and over 40,000 members across the country.
PACE
Program for Accessible health, Communication and Education (PACE), is a local non-governmental, non-profit organization, formerly part of Population Services International (PSI), PACE seeks to measurably improve the health of vulnerable Ugandans by using evidence-based social marketing and other proven approaches that promote sustained behaviour change.
PACE has programs in reproductive health, maternal health, child survival, HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support, malaria prevention and treatment as well as humanitarian relief programming throughout Uganda. In 2009 alone, PACE’s efforts have provided more than 194,000 people with a healthy year of life; prevented 283 maternal deaths, over 47,273 unintended pregnancies, 227,534 malaria cases, and 478,228 diarrhoea cases; and provided 158,798 couple years of protection.
