Innovation Challenges
Build the capabilities of innovators and organizations to design context-relevant solutions and move from idea to market/pilot readiness through custom-designed Innovation Challenges.
IDI's Role & Contribution
IDI serves as the design and innovation lead—facilitating the sprint process, providing tools/templates and coaching, convening cross-disciplinary expertise, and strengthening business strategy, storytelling, and (where relevant) technical readiness.
Our Approach
We apply IDI’s holistic, human-centred and systems-led methodology—grounded in behavioural insights and service design—delivered through “learning-by-doing” sprints that combine research and ecosystem understanding, problem framing, ideation, rapid prototyping, user testing, and business/pitch refinement supported by ongoing mentorship, clinics, and feedback loops.
Outputs & Results
Measurable outcomes achieved through the programme's core activities.
TONS OF PLASTIC COLLECTED
Project Outcome & Impact
Across programs, teams leave with clearer value propositions, stronger business models, and more investable outputs—such as refined prototypes and pitches, entrepreneur growth and funding readiness through programs like Afri-Plastics Challenge & Mombasa Plastics Prize Challenge (USAID, Challenge Works, Proportion Global), BeGreen Africa (UNICEF, Tony Elumelu Foundation), and Founders Factory Africa Academy, and structured technical assistance culminating in demo-ready MVPs and investor materials.
Partners
As we work to scale health systems across Africa, we are proud to partner with leading national and global organizations.
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